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

"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

With a two-ounce Gibbs bottle plug coupled with a Red Gill dropper, I started working an outer bar that blocked some of the surf.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The shipwrecked crew had left their schooner pounding on the outer bar, and finding their cries drowned by the roar of the waters, had taken to their boat.

From Tides of Barnegat by Francis Hopkinson Smith

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