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Black Rod en · NOUN
Meanings
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Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod.
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(also, historical) An usher in the legislature of some British colonies. Canada still had them in 2025.
Soon after, the Scotch commissioners presented also to the upper house the charge against him, tending to prove him an incendiary: he was immediately committed to the custody of the black rod.
1784, William Owen, William Johnston, A new and general biographical dictionary, page 154:
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