Definitions for benchers

benchers bench·er

Spelling: [ben-cher]
IPA: /ˈbɛn tʃər/

Benchers is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 203 anagrams from letters in benchers (bceehnrs).

Definitions for benchers

noun

  1. a senior member of an Inn of Court. a member of the House of Commons.
  2. a person who handles an oar; rower.

Origin of benchers

First recorded in 1525-35; bench + -er1

Examples for benchers

Nearly every bencher was present, for fifty-five were there.

bencher, who has come down to preside over this entertainment, has a rather forbidding air about him.

No person is admitted without the approbation of a bencher, or of the benchers in council assembled.

He caused the breeches of a bencher of Lincolne's Inne to be taken-in by a tayler and made him beleeve that he had the dropsie.

In 1832 he took silk, and was made a bencher of Lincoln's Inn.

Now, there never yet was a bencher of the name of Twopenny; though the mistake is easily accounted for.

In 1874 he was elected a bencher of the Middle Temple, of which he was treasurer in 1894.

He was a bencher of the Inner Temple, and his remains repose in the vault at the south-eastern extremity of the church.

He became a bencher in the same year, and began to plead in the courts of Westminster.

He would take his silk as an honour for his declining years, so that he might become a bencher at his Inn.

Word Value for benchers
Scrable

14

Words with friends

16

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