Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A swingletree.

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Examples

  • In the past he has painted interiors that exist, or must once have existed, but were necessarily imagined – Che Guevara's mountain hideout, Jimi Hendrix's last resting place, the Queen's bedroom (with a single-bar heater).

    Turner prize 2010 – review Laura Cumming 2010

  • A single-bar electric heater, its flex trailing down to a socket near the floor, hung from the ceiling.

    Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

  • Then she seemed to become aware of her surroundings again and her eyes wandered over the bed, her pathetic hands, the single-bar electric fire and finally Thanet and Lineham.

    No Laughing Matter Simpson, Dorothy, 1933- 1993

  • Witham scrutinized the single-bar tabs on my collar.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • Now, I lived in Officer Country and ate in the wardroom — but the only things really different about me were the single-bar tabs on my collar, my tan uniform, and the fact that many of the enlisted men called me Mr. Rick — which I thought preferable to being referred to as Mr. Dick.

    Rogue Warrior Marcinko, Richard 1992

  • She unfolded and adjusted a single-bar cooking rack, placing it over the fire.

    Renegades Of Gor Norman, John 1986

  • The old bromide that a quarterback had to pay his dues as a backup is becoming as obsolete as single-bar facemasks.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • The old bromide that a quarterback had to pay his dues as a backup is becoming as obsolete as single-bar facemasks.

    KansasCity.com: Front Page 2011

  • Sumerian duck also finds an echo, much later on, in a single-bar electric fire whose backplate has been snipped into the form of a yellow fish, a tench swimming in the grate, by

    The Guardian World News Adrian Searle 2011

  • Sumerian duck also finds an echo, much later on, in a single-bar electric fire whose backplate has been snipped into the form of a yellow fish, a tench swimming in the grate, by

    The Guardian World News Adrian Searle 2011

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