upbar

verb — 2 senses

upbar

verb

/ʌpˈbɑː(ɹ)/

Etymology From up- + bar.

1

Rare To fasten with a bar.

2

Obsolete To remove the bar or bars of, as a gate; to unbar.

  • He running down , the gate to him upbar'd1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

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