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Forms

1.A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
- The window was protected by steel bars.
2.A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
- We are expecting a carload of bar tomorrow.
- Ancient Sparta used iron bars instead of handy coins in more valuable alloy, to physically discourage the use of money.
3.A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
- I work at a bar.
4.A broad shaft, band, or stripe.
- I work at a bar.

1.To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
- Our way was barred by a huge rockfall.
2.To prohibit.
- I couldn't get into the nightclub because I had been barred.
3.To lock or bolt with a bar.
4.To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.

Common· #1014

From Middle English barre, from Old French barre (“beam, bar, gate, barrier”), from Vulgar Latin *barra, of uncertain origin.

Doublet of barre.