Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To bar out. See embar.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb obsolete To bar in; to secure.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To bar in; to secure.

Etymologies

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im- +‎ bar

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Examples

  • For I am sure he is one of the greatest enemies to his King & to his country, — I mean in imbar - assing & impeding the best good & interest of N. Hamp by preventing all he possibly can the supply of the publick Treasury, and thereby keeping the Province

    Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society 1792

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