upbar

English

Etymology

From up- +‎ bar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʌpˈbɑː(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

Verb

upbar (third-person singular simple present upbars, present participle upbarring, simple past and past participle upbarred)

1. (transitive, rare) To fasten with a bar.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the bar or bars of, as a gate; to unbar.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     He running down , the gate to him upbar'd

Anagrams

• bar up