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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A horizontal bar, line, or stripe.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The top of the goal structure.
  • n. The top tube of a bicycle frame.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A transverse bar or piece, as a bar across a door, or as the iron bar or stock which passes through the shank of an anchor to insure its turning fluke down.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A transverse bar; a bar laid or fixed across another; in an anchor, a round bar of iron, straight or bent at one or both ends, inserted in the shank.
  • n. A small bar in the mechanism of a break-joint breech-loading firearm, which presses out the extractor when the barrels are falling.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a horizontal bar that goes across something
  • n. long thin horizontal crosspiece between two vertical posts
  • n. game equipment consisting of a horizontal bar to be jumped or vaulted over
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    crosspiece    game equipment   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    whippletre   
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