A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length.
A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is .25 inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip.
A cuboid piece of any solid commodity.
A broad shaft, or band, or stripe.
A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart.
The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa.
A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is negative (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle).
A business licensed to sell alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; public house.
The counter of such a premises.
A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room.
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An establishment where alcohol and sometimes other refreshments are served.
An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises.
An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity.
Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier.
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A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass.
The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay
"the Bar" or "the bar" The bar exam, the legal licensing exam.
A collective term for lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries but including all lawyers in others.
A bar-shaped symbol that denotes levels of reception, or reception itself.
A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value.
One of those musical sections.
A horizontal pole that must be crossed in high jump and pole vault
Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome.
The crossbar.
The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit.
An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act
A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water.
A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance, especially a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501).
One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a fess.
A city gate, in some British place names.
A drilling or tamping rod.
A vein or dike crossing a lode.
A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town.
The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole.
The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed.
A non-SI unit of pressure equal to 100,000 pascals, approximately equal to atmospheric pressure at sea level.
To obstruct the passage of (someone or something).
To prohibit.
To lock or bolt with a bar.
To imprint or paint with bars, to stripe.
Except, other than, besides.
Denotes the minimum odds offered on other horses not mentioned by name.
A straight, round stick, shaft, bar, cane, or staff.
A longitudinal pole used for forming part of a framework such as an awning or tent.
A long slender usually tapering pole used for angling; fishing rod.
A stick, pole, or bundle of switches or twigs (such as a birch), used for personal defense or to administer corporal punishment by whipping.
An implement resembling and/or supplanting a rod (particularly a cane) that is used for corporal punishment, and metonymically called the rod, regardless of its actual shape and composition.
A stick used to measure distance, by using its established length or task-specific temporary marks along its length, or by dint of specific graduated marks.
A feet, or exactly 5.0292 meters (these being all equivalent).
An implement held vertically and viewed through an optical surveying instrument such as a transit, used to measure distance in land surveying and construction layout; an engineer's rod, surveyor's rod, surveying rod, leveling rod, ranging rod. The modern engineer's or surveyor's rod commonly is eight or ten feet long and often designed to extend higher. In former times a surveyor's rod often was a single wooden pole or composed of multiple sectioned and socketed pieces, and besides serving as a sighting target was used to measure distance on the ground horizontally, hence for convenience was of one rod or pole in length, that is, 5½ yards.
A unit of area equal to a square rod, 30¼ square yards or 1/160 acre.
A straight bar that unites moving parts of a machine, for holding parts together as a connecting rod or for transferring power as a drive-shaft.
Short for rod cell, a rod-shaped cell in the eye that is sensitive to light.
Any of a number of long, slender microorganisms.
A stirring rod: a glass rod, typically about 6 inches to 1 foot long and 1/8 to 1/4 inch in diameter that can be used to stir liquids in flasks or beakers.
A pistol; a gun.
A penis.
A hot rod, an automobile or other passenger motor vehicle modified to run faster and often with exterior cosmetic alterations, especially one based originally on a pre-1940s model or (currently) denoting any older vehicle thus modified.
A rod-shaped object that appears in photographs or videos traveling at high speed, not seen by the person recording the event, often associated with extraterrestrial entities.
A Cuisenaire rod.
A coupling rod or connecting rod, which links the driving wheels of a steam locomotive.
To reinforce concrete with metal rods.
To penetrate sexually.
To hot rod.