hitching-bar
noun1
A bar used to hitch a horse to a carriage.
2
A horizontal bar to which horses are tethered.
- At the hitch-bars along the street a few heavy work-horses, harnessed to farm wagons, shivered under their blankets.1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:
- He led us to a hitching-bar where two farm-wagons were tied, and I saw the foreign family crowding into one of them.1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 7:
- Related terms
- hitching post