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bar(6) (iou)



bar verb trans. [b¨»:] Infl. -rr-. ME.
[Old & mod. French barrer, formed as BAR noun1.]
I. Make fast with a bar or bars.
Make fast (a door etc.) with a bar or bars; fasten up (a place) with a bar or bars; provide with a bar or bars. ME.
Fasten in, shut up, or confine securely (a person or thing) with a bar or bars; keep or shut in or out. LME.
Law. Block (a person, an action or claim) by objection. LME.
statute-barred: see STATUTE noun. time-barred: see TIME noun.
Hinder, prevent, or prohibit (a person) from; deprive or debar of. Also foll. by (arch.) 2nd obj., to do. LME.
N. Harpsfield Is there anything here that barreth those that be under the patriarch of Alexandria..to appeal to the see apostolic? Shakespeare 2 Henry IV I will bar no honest man my house. R. L'Estrange A Disease..barrs us of some Pleasures, but procures us others. Tennyson Last from her own home-circle..They barr'd her.
Stop, hinder, prevent, prohibit, (an action or event). M16.
no holds barred, with no holds barred: see HOLD noun1 2b.
P. G. Wodehouse No more friendly little games with nothing barred except biting and bottles. F. Raphael Its sale was barred on station bookstalls.
Exclude from consideration, set aside, (cf. BAR, BARRING prepositions). L16.
R. Herrick When next thou do'st invite, barre state, And give me meate.
Obstruct (a way of approach, a person's progress). L16.
Take exception to, object to. Now slang. E17.
II.
Mark with bars or stripes; divide or make into bars. Chiefly as barred ppl adjective. LME.
Keats Eyed like a peacock, and all crimson barr'd. R. G. Collingwood The Scherzo of Beethoven's C minor Symphony begins by reproducing the Finale of Mozart's G minor, differently barred.