outbar

English

Etymology

From out- +‎ bar.

Verb

outbar (third-person singular simple present outbars, present participle outbarring, simple past and past participle outbarred)

1. To bar out.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “(please specify the book)”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     With which the world did in those days abound :
     Which to outbar, with painful pionings

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “outbar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Aburto, Otruba, bar out, rubato, tabour