barrator

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One who is guilty of barratry, vexing others with frequent and often groundless lawsuits; a brangler and pettifogger.

   “But by Hawk. P. C. bk. 1, c. 21, if such suits are merely groundless, and brought only with a design to oppress the defendants, such a man may as properly be called a barrator as if he had stirred up others to bring them.”

2. isim One who buys or sells political or ecclesiastic offices.
3. isim A judge who accepts bribes.
4. isim A ship's master who commits gross fraud or barratry.
5. isim A quarrelsome person, one who fights, a bully.

   “I care not though men call me impudent, / Smooth-tongu'd, audacious, petulant, abhominable, / Forger of vvords and lie, contentious Barretour, / Old, vvinding, bragging, teſty, crafty fox.”