Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Counsellor
subs. (Irish).—A barrister. Fr., un gerbier.
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1889. Answers, 9 Feb. I referred him to my solicitors, who very kindly lent their services for nothing, giving the £3 he had to the COUNSELLOR (thieves always call barristers COUNSELLORS) employed.
