upbar

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/ʌpˈbɑː(ɹ)/

verb

To fasten with a bar.

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Meanings

verbupbar (third-person singular simple present upbars, present participle upbarring, simple past and past participle upbarred)

present singular third person upbars · participle present upbarring · participle past upbarred · past upbarred

  1. raretransitiveTo fasten with a bar.
  2. obsoletetransitiveTo remove the bar or bars of, as a gate; to unbar.

    He running down , the gate to him upbar'd

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin

From up- + bar.

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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with upbar

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Cite this entry
APA

upbar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upbar

MLA

“upbar.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upbar. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “upbar,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/upbar.

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