Bencher

1. n. One who frequents the benches of a tavern; an idler.
2. n. One of the senior and governing members of an Inn of Court.
3. n. An alderman of a corporation.
4. n. A member of a court or council.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.