outbar

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ bar.

Verb

outbar (third-person singular simple present outbars, present participle outbarring, simple past and past participle outbarred)

1. (obsolete) To bar out (shut out).
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     With which the world did in those days abound :
     Which to outbar, with painful pionings

References

• “outbar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• Aburto, Otruba, bar out, rubato, tabour