outer bar

American  

Or utter bar

noun

English Law.

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

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outer bar British  

noun

1. (in England) a collective name for junior barristers who plead from outside the bar of the court Compare Queen's Counsel

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outer bar

Fish the outer bar using a steady retrieve with a continuous splashing action.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Drumheads" use heavy-action, 12-foot surf rods called heavers to launch eight-ounce leads and menhaden chunks into the stratosphere and onto the outer bar.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before him, at two curved tables, the inner and the outer bar, sat the wigged Crown Counsel and the Defense Attorneys.

From Time Magazine Archive

Reaching the outer bar, the outer reef or that flowing water in the middle of an inlet will be important.

From Time Magazine Archive

The bay was gray and lonely, and the fish weirs along the outer bar were lost in the mist.

From Cy Whittaker's Place by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby