(n.) One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.

(n.) An alderman of a corporation.

(n.) A member of a court or council.

(n.) One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.

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• Good things have been said about it by blue-nosed, bulbous-shoed old benchers in select port-wine committee after dinner in hall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The benchers determined to have his door broken open, as he hadn't paid any rent for two years. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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