unˈbarred, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Of harbours: Not obstructed by a bar.
| a 1550 Leland Itin. iii. (1907) 192 Ther cam to this place ons, the haven beyng onbarrid and syns chokid with tynne workes, good talle shippes. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. II. 177 These are..the principal unbarred havens. |
2. Not secured or blocked with a bar or bars.
| 1603 Holland Plutarch's Mor. 165 Making no resistance to his appetites and demaunds, but letting all ly unfortified, unbard, and unlockt. 1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 656 Weymouth,..whose hospitable Gate, Unbarr'd to All, invites a numerous Train Of daily Guests. 1811 Ld. Dudley Lett. to ‘Ivy’ (1905) 147 The doors are all left unbarred, and yet I never heard of anything being stolen. 1871 Daily News 18 Sept., Gallopers explored the railway line right and left to find sound bridges or unbarred level crossings. |
3. Law. Not excluded or blocked. (bar v. 5 b.)
| 1818 [see unbarrable a.]. 1877 Blackmore Erema li, As to the property,..the greater part would descend to me under unbarred settlement. |
4. Not marked with a bar or minus sign.
| 1878 Gurney Crystallogr. 16 All of these numbers are unbarred. |
5. Of music: Not divided into bars.
| 1879 Grove's Dict. Mus. I. 137/2 In this kind of unbarred music the relative value of the notes must be..preserved. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 1/3 Old madrigals from the separate and unbarred part books for the Musical Antiquarian Society. |