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unbar, v.
[un-2 3 and 7.]
a. trans. To remove the bar from (a door or gate, etc.); to unfasten, undo. Also absol.
13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 2070 The brygge was brayde doun, & þe brode gatez Vnbarred, & born open. 1433Lydg. St. Edmund iii. 1201 A-nother [thief] besy..To vnpyke lokys, a-nother to vnbarre. c1450Mirk's Festial 42 Thomas ȝede to þe dyr, and vnbarret þe dyrre. c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 81 He vnbarred helmes, and claue asounder sheldes. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xi. 17 He behight Those gates to be vnbar'd, and forth he went. 1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 995 The Turkes..vncouered and vnbarred their artillerie against the assailants. c1620Fletcher & Massinger Trag. Barnavelt v. iii, Who Unbard the Havens that the floating Merchant Might clap his lynnen wings up to the windes. 1700Dryden Ovid's Met., Ajax xiii. 573 Sure I may..Enter the Town, I then unbarr'd the Gates, When I remov'd their tutelary Fates. 1752Johnson Rambler No. 190 ⁋7 The servant immediately confessed that he unbarred the door. 1815Scott Guy M. xlv, The house-door was next unbarred, unlocked, and unchained. 1859Dickens Haunted House iv, With soothing words the sister bade her wait, Until she brought the key to unbar the gate.
b. In fig. context.
1601Weever Mirr. Mart. C iij b, Looke when the sun..doth rise, Soone as the morne vnbarres her christall gate. 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. iv. 8 Th' sure Physitian, Death, who is the key T' vnbarre these Lockes. 1667Milton P.L. vi. 4 Till Morn..with rosie hand Unbarr'd the gates of Light. 1725Pope Odyss. iv. 412 The morn..Unbarr'd the portal of the roseate East. 1746Hervey Medit. (1818) 87 The returning hours have unbarred the gates of light. 1855Brewster Newton II. xvii. 133 That intellectual strength which had unbarred the strongholds of the universe. 1867Ruskin Time & Tide iv. §17 You practical English!—will you ever unbar the shutters of your brains? 1878Seeley Stein III. 565 There is nothing he likes better than unbarring restrictions, throwing open closed doors.
c. intr. To undergo unbarring.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. 396, I heard her lady's door, with hasty violence unbar, unbolt, unlock, and open.
Hence unˈbarring vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1611Florio, Sbaraglio, rout, vnbarring, scattring. 1829Scott Anne of G. xix, They heard the noise of the unbolting and unbarring of the gates of the inn. 1834Marryat P. Simple xix, The unbarring of the prison doors. 1857Dickens Dorrit i. xvi, The possibility of her father's release from prison by the unbarring hand of death. |