inner bar

American  

noun

English Law.

1. a body of the King's Counsel or Queen's Counsel who sit and plead inside the dividing bar in the court, ranking above the junior counsel.

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inner bar British  

noun

1. all Queen's or King's Counsel collectively

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Example Sentences

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inner bar

The inner bar that had shut her in was broken.

From The Brimming Cup by Dorothy Canfield Fisher

He also discovered sockets for an inner bar, by which the hermit probably locked himself in at night.

From The Pony Rider Boys in the Alkali or, Finding a Key to the Desert Maze by Frank Gee Patchin

He then surveyed the body of the court, and at length fixed his glance on the inner bar, where, seated beside Mr. Foxley, I sat, pale and almost breathless with terror.

From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Charles James Lever

They were under orders to cross the inner bar and ascend the Mohoro River.

From Rounding up the Raider A Naval Story of the Great War by Percy F. (Percy Francis) Westerman

There is still a second surf to pass, which breaks on the inner bar, about forty or fifty yards nearer to the shore.

From The Lieutenant and Commander Being Autobigraphical Sketches of His Own Career, from Fragments of Voyages and Travels by Basil Hall

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