Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One of the parts of the frame of a window or window-sash.
  • noun A bar of wood or iron for securing a window or the shutters of it when closed.
  • noun A horizontal bar fitted in a window or doorway, to prevent a child from falling through.
  • noun plural Latticework, as on a woman's stomacher.

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Examples

  • Coquart, who was putting away the papers of this wretched case, told me that a very handsome woman had taken the Conciergerie by storm, wanting to save Lucien, whom she was quite crazy about, and that she fainted away on seeing him hanging by his necktie to the window-bar of his room.

    Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

  • Then I tried the window-bar, and found it firmly fixed.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 2006

  • The fact is that as long as the eye is turned to the bright window-pane a more intensive blood-activity occurs in the portions of the eye's background met by the light than in those where the dark window-bar throws its shadow on the retina.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • The girl leaned on the window-bar, half-shut her eyes, and seemed to go to sleep for a moment.

    Bliss, and Other Stories 1920

  • Then I tried the window-bar, and found it firmly fixed.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau 1906

  • Therefore I only laughed and departed, and she leaned over the window-bar in the night and mocked me down the street.

    Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Then I tried the window-bar, and found it firmly fixed.

    Concerning the Beast Folk Herbert George 1896

  • Then I tried the window-bar, and found it firmly fixed.

    The Island of Doctor Moreau Herbert George 1896

  • Robin fought for his place on the projecting stones, clung to the rough wall, gripped a window-bar and drew himself yet higher.

    Come Rack! Come Rope! Robert Hugh Benson 1892

  • "In the pocket of this cloak," said Valentine, "I have a silken rope ladder, with hooks which will clasp the window-bar of her room."

    Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare 1891

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