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side-bar
[side n.1]
1. Law.
a. A former bar in the Outer Parliament House in Edinburgh (see quot. 1838). Also attrib.
1708J. Chamberlayne Pres. St. Gt. Brit. ii. (1710) 418 The Ordinary is to make a Report of their Interloquitor, which he Reports in the Outer House the next day ordinarily, or at the side Bar the next Week. 1819Blackw. Mag. IV. 564 He should have stuck to side-bar quirks. 1838W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 916 Side-bar, the name given to the bar in the Outer Parliament House, at which the Lords Ordinary were in use to call their hand-rolls.
b. A former bar in Westminster Hall. Hence side-bar rule (see quot. 1825).
1795Burke Regic. Peace iv. (C.P.S.) 349 The criminal will climb from the dock to the side-bar, and take his place..with the counsel. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 156 Formerly, attorneys stood within this bar every morning during term, and moved the judges for the common rules, called side-bar rules, as they passed to their courts... The rules are [now] obtained at the rule-office; but each rule still expresses that it has been granted upon a ‘side-bar’ motion. 1883Law Times LXXVI. 58/1, I do not now decide whether a view can still be obtained without a motion by a side-bar rule under rule 48 of R.G., H.T. 1853.
2. A toll-bar on a side-road.
1861The Star & Dial 28 Oct., The relief of the parish from the turnpikes and side-bars now existing in the several roads of the parish.
3. side-bar keel, a form of iron keel for ships.
1869Reed Ship-building ii. 25 This is the arrangement known as the ‘side-bar keel’, and a very excellent arrangement it is for external iron keels. 1874Thearle Nav. Archit. 269 The next kind of keel in order of frequency of adoption is the centre plate or side bar keel.
4. A lateral bar or longitudinal side-piece, as in a saddle, carriage, etc. Also attrib.
1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2172/2. 1884 Ibid. Suppl. 808/1. 1886 Pall Mall G. 7 Sept. 14/1 It has wheels of oak, with springs of the finest steel, arranged like a side-bar buggy.
5. side-bar whiskers U.S. local, side-whiskers, side-burns.
1882G. W. Peck Peck's Sunshine 55 He was a red⁓faced man, with these side-bar whiskers. 1975Amer. Speech 1972 XLVII. 155 Some of my earliest memories of childhood in the Up Country of South Carolina..center upon the hearing of the lively and colorful word tea⁓hounds... Invariably the expression was employed humorously..when a person referred to side-bar whiskers, rather bushy projections extending from the hairline to below the ears and worn with an unbearded chin.
6. A secondary newspaper article featuring some aspect of a main story in the same publication. U.S. Journalism.
1948C. D. Macdougall Interpretive Reporting (rev. ed.) 695 Sidebar, a complete article on one phrase of a longer story, run separately. 1967R. J. Serling President's Plane is Missing iv. 70 Bat us out a good sidebar on anything that's ever happened to a presidential plane. 1977Time 17 Jan. 5/2 The cover story was written by Morrison, with a sidebar on Felker by Michael Demarest.
Add:[6.] b. transf. Something which is secondary or additional; a supplementary piece of information, a side issue. Freq. attrib. orig. and chiefly U.S.
1952N.Y. World Telegram 25 June 25/2 Now he has a side bar job, whether it is hustling beer or sports equipment. 1977Washington Post 8 Nov. a8/2 Strauss and other high officials have indicated they hope to resolve the steel issue in so-called ‘sectoral’ or sidebar talks. 1979Ibid. 10 Aug. d10/2 I'll tell you an interesting sidebar about one book. 1980Amer. Banker 8 Jan. 14/3, I believe that to most of these, high asset banking is a sidebar... To this bank it's in the mainstream. 1983Daily Tel. 1 Nov. 18/2 An interesting sidebar to the Grenada crisis is the fact that the island is the only country in the world where more girls than boys are born almost every year. |