Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In architecture, a horizontal iron bar extending in one piece from jamb to jamb through the mullions of a traceried window. See
saddle-bar . - noun Same as
stay-rod , 2. - noun Same as
stay-rod , 1.
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Examples
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With stormy eyes she pulled the stay-bar quickly, and, in doing so, caught his arm between the casement and the stone mullion.
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With stormy eyes she pulled the stay-bar quickly, and, in doing so, caught his arm between the casement and the stone mullion.
Tess of the d'Urbervilles Thomas Hardy 1884
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