upbar
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upbar (third-person singular simple present upbars, present participle upbarring, simple past and past participle upbarred)
- (transitive, rare) To fasten with a bar.
- (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