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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Nautical: A strong bar of oak used to secure the ports in a gale, by bracing the closed port on the inside.
  • noun A boom formed of spars or trees lashed together, and moored across the entrance of a port to prevent entrance or egress.
  • noun Same as bar, 4 .

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