noun
A heavy iron bar is used to tamp the dynamite into place in the hole
The company trade mark is a narrow red bar around the barrel of every ball-point pen
A steel bar was across the entrance. Her pride proved a bar to her success. There is a bar against importing spirits
Because the keel is too deep, the sloop will be unable to cross the bar till high tide
The former mayor was found guilty of corruption at the bar of public opinion
I was at the bar on my third beer when she walked in
We had a quick lunch at the sandwich bar
verb
We tried to get in through the window, but they had barred it
After his behaviour, he was barred from the club for a year. A huge man in an ill-fitting dinner-jacket barred my way. The regulations bar the import of firearms
preposition
It's all over now bar the shouting
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