Prisoner at the Bar
. The prisoner in the dock, who is on his trial; so called because anciently he stood at the bar which separated the barristers from the common pleaders.
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	      Entry taken from
	      Dictionary of Phrase and Fable,
	      edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.