Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The side-bar, side-plate, or spring-bar of a saddletree.
- noun In medieval architecture, one of several narrow iron bars extending from mullion to mullion, or through the mullions across an entire window, to hold firmly the stonework and the lead setting of the glass.
- noun One of the bent, oblique, or straight crossbars or pieces of lead on which the pieces of glass used in a design in a stained-glass window are placed or seated.
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Captain Carr had a peculiar, graceful fling of the arm, catching the saddle-bar with one hand while he steadied the handles with the other.
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