BARRED
barred
(adjective) marked with stripes or bands
barricaded, barred, blockaded
(adjective) preventing entry or exit or a course of action; “a barricaded street”; “barred doors”; “the blockaded harbor”
BAR
bar, debar, exclude
(verb) prevent from entering; keep out; “He was barred from membership in the club”
bar
(verb) secure with, or as if with, bars; “He barred the door”
barricade, block, blockade, stop, block off, block up, bar
(verb) render unsuitable for passage; “block the way”; “barricade the streets”; “stop the busy road”
banish, relegate, bar
(verb) expel, as if by official decree; “he was banished from his own country”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Adjective
barred (comparative more barred, superlative most barred)
Having bars; striped.
Prevented, either by a physical barrier or by conditions.
Verb
barred
simple past tense and past participle of bar
Anagrams
• Berard, Brader
Source: Wiktionary
BAR
Bar, n. Etym: [OE. barre, F. barre, fr. LL. barra, W. bar the branch
of a tree, bar, baren branch, Gael. & Ir. barra bar.
1. A piece of wood, metal, or other material, long in proportion to
its breadth or thickness, used as a lever and for various other
purposes, but especially for a hindrance, obstruction, or fastening;
as, the bars of a fence or gate; the bar of a door.
Thou shalt make bars of shittim wood. Ex. xxvi. 26.
2. An indefinite quantity of some substance, so shaped as to be long
in proportion to its breadth and thickness; as, a bar of gold or of
lead; a bar of soap.
3. Anything which obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a
barrier.
Must I new bars to my own joy create Dryden.
4. A bank of sand, gravel, or other matter, esp. at the mouth of a
river or harbor, obstructing navigation.
5. Any railing that divides a room, or office, or hall of assembly,
in order to reserve a space for those having special privileges; as,
the bar of the House of Commons.
6. (Law)
(a) The railing that incloses the place which counsel occupy in
courts of justice. Hence, the phrase at the bar of the court
signifies in open court.
(b) The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment,
trial, or sentence.
(c) The whole body of lawyers licensed in a court or district; the
legal profession.
(d) A special plea constituting a sufficient answer to plaintiff's
action.
7. Any tribunal; as, the bar of public opinion; the bar of God.
8. A barrier or counter, over which liquors and food are passed to
customers; hence, the portion of the room behind the counter where
liquors for sale are kept.
9. (Her.)
Definition: An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth
part of the field.
10. A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of
color.
11. (Mus.)
Definition: A vertical line across the staff. Bars divide the staff into
spaces which represent measures, and are themselves called measures.
Note: A double bar marks the end of a strain or main division of a
movement, or of a whole piece of music; in psalmody, it marks the end
of a line of poetry. The term bar is very often loosely used for
measure, i.e., for such length of music, or of silence, as is
included between one bar and the next; as, a passage of eight bars;
two bars' rest.
12. (Far.) pl.
(a) The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a
horse, in which the bit is placed.
(b) The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards
towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the
center of the sole.
13. (Mining)
(a) A drilling or tamping rod.
(b) A vein or dike crossing a lode.
14. (Arch.)
(a) A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
(b) A slender strip of wood which divides and supports the glass of a
window; a sash bar. Bar shoe (Far.), a kind of horseshoe having a bar
across the usual opening at the heel, to protect a tender frog from
injury.
– Bar shot, a double headed shot, consisting of a bar, with a ball
or half ball at each end; -- formerly used for destroying the masts
or rigging in naval combat.
– Bar sinister (Her.), a term popularly but erroneously used for
baton, a mark of illegitimacy. See Baton.
– Bar tracery (Arch.), ornamental stonework resembling bars of iron
twisted into the forms required.
– Blank bar (Law). See Blank.
– Case at bar (Law), a case presently before the court; a case
under argument.
– In bar of, as a sufficient reason against; to prevent.
– Matter in bar, or Defence in bar, a plea which is a final defense
in an action.
– Plea in bar, a plea which goes to bar or defeat the plaintiff's
action absolutely and entirely.
– Trial at bar (Eng. Law), a trial before all the judges of one the
superior courts of Westminster, or before a quorum representing the
full court.
Bar, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barred (p. pr. & vb. n. Barring.] Etym: [ 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition