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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
noun
- (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.
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The bay was gray and lonely, and the fish weirs along the outer bar were lost in the mist.
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The wide harbor and the sea that flashed beyond the outer bar were ruffled by a piping breeze out of the northeast.
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The sand of the outer bar was dimpled and mottled like watered silk by the action of the waves.
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It was upon this outer bar that we had struck, and the other boat experienced the same fate as ourselves.
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