Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rail or bar set horizontally upon posts, and having rings or holes, to which horses are tethered or hitched: commonly fixed in front of a tavern.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
bar used tohitch ahorse to acarriage . - noun A horizontal bar to which horses are tethered.
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Examples
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He led us to a hitching-bar where two farm-wagons were tied, and I saw the foreign family crowding into one of them.
My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Mrs. McFarlane met him at the hitching-bar, and it required but a glance for him to read in her face a troubled state of mind.
The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range Hamlin Garland 1900
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Tavern, and were refreshing themselves with stout glasses of "Old Rye," while their horses, tethered side by side to the pegs in the long hitching-bar, pawed and stamped impatiently.
The Story of Kennett Bayard Taylor 1851
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a hitching-bar where two farm wagons were tied, and I saw the foreign family crowding into one of them.
My Ántonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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