barred
AdjectiveWordNet 3.0
Adjective (2)
- preventing entry or exit or a course of action“a barricaded street”“barred doors”“the blockaded harbor”Synonyms: barricadedblockaded
- marked with stripes or bands
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Bar \Bar\ (b[aum]r), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barred (b[aum]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Barring.] [ F. barrer. See Bar, n.]
1.To fasten with a bar; as, to bar a door or gate. [1913 Webster]
2.To restrict or confine, as if by a bar; to hinder; to obstruct; to prevent; to prohibit; as, to bar the entrance of evil; distance bars our intercourse; the statute bars my right; the right is barred by time; a release bars the plaintiff's recovery; -- sometimes with up. [1913 Webster]
He barely looked the idea in the face, and hastened to bar it in its dungeon.— Hawthorne.[1913 Webster]
3.To except; to exclude by exception. [1913 Webster]
Nay, but I bar to-night: you shall not gauge me By what we do to-night.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
4.To cross with one or more stripes or lines. [1913 Webster]
For the sake of distinguishing the feet more clearly, I have barred them singly.— Burney.[1913 Webster]