bar out

present singular third person bars out · participle present barring out · participle past barred out · past barred out

1. literallytransitiveTo keep (someone or something) from entering.
2. obsoleteTo shut a teacher out of the classroom as a prank.

   Not schoolboys at a barring out Rais’d ever such incessant rout

   1728, The Journal of a Modern Lady, Jonathan Swift

   1 more example

   We feel that it is a disgrace to a man like Tennyson, when he talks of the French revolutions, the huge crusades that had recreated the whole of his civilisation, as being "no graver than a schoolboy's barring out."

   1913, G. K. Chesterton, “chapter 3”, in The Victorian Age in Literature

   Synonyms: outbar