outer bar

or utter bar

noun

, English Law.

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.

outer bar

(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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Whilst at anchor, awaiting the tide to cross the outer bar, our attendant pilot boat came to grief under our bows.

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

The wide harbor and the sea that flashed beyond the outer bar were ruffled by a piping breeze out of the northeast.

The sand of the outer bar was dimpled and mottled like watered silk by the action of the waves.

It was upon this outer bar that we had struck, and the other boat experienced the same fate as ourselves.

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