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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Barred} (b[aum]rd); p. pr & vb n. {Barring}.] [ F. barrer. See {Bar}, n.] 1. To fasten with a bar; as to bar a door or gate. 2. To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon. --Hawthorne. 3. To except; to exclude by exception. Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to-night. --Shak. 4. To cross with one or more stripes or lines. For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly. --Burney. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: barred adj 1: firmly fastened or secured against opening; "windows and doors were all fast"; "a locked closet"; "left the house properly secured" [syn: {bolted}, {fast}, {latched}, {locked}, {secured}] 2: preventing entry or exit or a course of action "a barricaded street"; "barred doors"; "the blockaded harbor" [syn: {barricaded}, {blockaded}]
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