outer bar

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outer bar - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Outer \Out"er\ (out"[~e]r), a. [Compar. of Out.] [AS. [=u]tor,
     compar. of [=u]t, adv., out. See Out, Utter, a.]
     Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the
     interior, from a given station, or from any space or position
     regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to
     inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the
     outer stump in cricket; the outer world.
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     Outer bar, in England, the body of junior (or utter)
        barristers; -- so called because in court they occupy a
        place beyond the space reserved for Queen's counsel.
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