Concrete bollards (2) segregating a pedestrian area from a roadway
Etymology
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From Middle English bollard, probably from Middle English bole (“tree trunk”), equivalent to bole + -ard (pejorative or diminutive suffix).
Pronunciation
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bollard (plural bollards)
- (nautical) A strong vertical post of timber or iron, fixed to the ground and/or on the deck of a ship, to which the ship's mooring lines etc are secured. A bitt.
1959, Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone:Today he had for bollard the unfinished monument half-erected to some all but forgotten anarchist.
1965, Poul Anderson, The Star Fox:He sat on a bollard, looking out across the water, a man more small and shabby than expected.
- A similar post preventing vehicle access to a pedestrian area, to delineate traffic lanes, or used for security purposes.
Derived terms
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Translations
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post to secure mooring lines
- Bulgarian: вързало (bg) n (vǎrzalo), кнехт m (kneht)
- Catalan: norai (ca) m
- Czech: pachole (cs) n
- Danish: pullert c
- Dutch: meerpaal (nl) m, bolder (nl) m, aanlegpaal m
- Esperanto: bito
- Finnish: pollari (fi)
- French: bollard (fr) m (rarely used), bitte d’amarrage (fr) f (mooring bollard), bitte (fr) f (rarely used as bitte used alone is a widely used slang word for penis)
- Galician: norai m, bita f
- German: Poller (de) m, Pfahl (de) m
- Hungarian: kikötőbak (hu)
- Icelandic: polli (is) m
- Irish: ceap ceangail m
- Italian: bitta (it) f, galloccia f
- Latin: caudex m
- Malay: tonggak
- Maori: pūtiki
- Norman: lache f
- Polish: pachołek (pl) m
- Portuguese: cabeço (pt) m
- Russian: кнехт (ru) m (knext), прико́л (ru) m (prikól), шварто́вная ту́мба f (švartóvnaja túmba)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: би̏тва f
- Roman: bȉtva (sh) f
- Spanish: noray (es) m, bolardo (es) m
- Swedish: pollare (sv) c
- Turkish: baba (tr)
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post preventing vehicles from entering pedestrian area
- Catalan: bol·lard (ca) m
- Czech: sloupek (cs)
- Danish: pullert c
- Dutch: verkeerspaal (nl) m (road bollard), poller (nl) m (retractible road bollard)
- Finnish: pollari (fi), betonipylväs
- French: borne (fr) f, bollard (fr) m
- Galician: bolardo m
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: Poller (de) m, Absperrpoller m
- Hungarian: oszlop (hu)
- Irish: ceap ceangail m, mullard m
- Italian: paracarro (it) m, pilastro (it) m, spartitraffico (it) m, colonnina (it) f
- Malay: tonggak
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: pullert m
- Polish: słupek (pl) m
- Portuguese: pilarete (pt) m
- Russian: столб (ru) m (stolb), ту́мба (ru) f (túmba)
- Spanish: bolardo (es) m, pilona f, pivote (es) m
- Swedish: pollare (sv) c
- Turkish: baba (tr)
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