bollard

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One distressed witness said: "There was a man on the ground and another man was smashing his head with this silver bollard, there was nothing they [security] could have done."

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  1. noun Nautical A thick post on a ship or wharf, used for securing ropes and hawsers.
  2. noun One of a series of posts preventing vehicles from entering an area.

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  • A hawser dropped beside him; someone snatched it up, dragged it to a bollard, and made it fast. —  Maigret and the Death of a Harbormaster—Simenon, Georges-15
  • He sat down on a bollard, looked around to make sure Maigret had followed, then lit a cigarette and waited. —  Maigret's War Of Nerves—05—Georges Simenon
  • Aiken strolled off the bollard, leaving Raimo sitting there and blinking, and struck a pose in thin air. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • Up on the bollard, Raimo extended both of his arms to the side. —  The Many-Coloured Land -- Julian May
  • At the moment a veez was balancing on the rounded top of one bollard, investigating it closely. —  PRIESTESS OF THE WHITE
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  1. Middle English, probably from bole, tree trunk; see bole1.

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  1. Perhaps from bole + -ard. Cf. pollard.
 

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