Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In carriages:
  • noun A longitudinal side-piece, especially in a military traveling forge or a battery-wagon.
  • noun One of two elastic wooden bars placed one on each side of the body of some forms of light wagon or buggy to connect it with the gearing and to serve both as a support and as a spring.
  • noun In saddlery, one of two plates which unite the pommel and cantle of a saddle.
  • noun In the Scottish Court of Session, the name given to the bar in the outer parliament-house, at which the lords ordinary formerly called their hand-rolls.

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Examples

  • The trick is to make this as blatant as possible: for example, I repeat myself in the title, in the header art, in the page headings, in the side-bar, etc.

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  • There are many, many sf works that paint very detailed pictures of future societies, but in most of these religion, if mentioned at all, is relegated to the side-bar, not front and center.

    2009 November « Hyperpat’s HyperDay 2009

  • On a complete side-bar, anyone else notice the technicolour index card today?

    Unforeseen difficulties. 2009

  • The trick is to make this as blatant as possible: for example, I repeat myself in the title, in the header art, in the page headings, in the side-bar, etc.

    Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » 2009 » May 2009

  • Several clients allow you to make groups or lists and have them displayed either simultaneously in side-by-side columns (Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop) or with the ability to switch the group being viewed by clicking on a list in a side-bar (Friendfeed).

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  • Typically, this utopian marketplace analysis is put forth with side-bar attacks on paternalistic economic development gurus, soft-headed nonprofit executives and government paper-pushers.

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  • It's tucked away in the Chronicles of Elantra side-bar, under the Cast in Silence entry.

    Cast in Silence Chapter, and a question msagara 2009

  • Life at HOK is a blog to which numerous HOK people contribute – judging from the side-bar, 30 people have submitted around 540 posts to date.

    Life at HOK « pwcom 2.0 2009

  • Several clients allow you to make groups or lists and have them displayed either simultaneously in side-by-side columns (Tweetdeck and Seesmic Desktop) or with the ability to switch the group being viewed by clicking on a list in a side-bar (Friendfeed).

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  • Life at HOK is a blog to which numerous HOK people contribute – judging from the side-bar, 30 people have submitted around [...] 3 Comments

    2009 March 16 « pwcom 2.0 2009

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