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hitching-bar

hitching-bar noun: a bar used to hitch a horse to a carriage.

Noun

hitching-bar (plural hitching-bars)

  1. A bar used to hitch a horse to a carriage.
  2. A horizontal bar to which horses are tethered.
    • At the hitch-bars along the street a few heavy work-horses, harnessed to farm wagons, shivered under their blankets.1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!
    • He led us to a hitching-bar where two farm-wagons were tied, and I saw the foreign family crowding into one of them.1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 7

Forms of hitching-bar

pluralhitching-bars
alternative formhitch-bar

Questions about hitching-bar

What does hitching-bar mean?
Hitching-bar means a bar used to hitch a horse to a carriage.
What part of speech is hitching-bar?
Hitching-bar is a noun.
What is the plural of hitching-bar?
The plural of hitching-bar is hitching-bars.

Words near hitching-bar in the dictionary

  1. hitching post
  2. hitching posts
  3. hitching rail
  4. hitching rails
  5. hitching up
  6. hitching-bar
  7. hitching-bars
  8. hitchings
  9. Hitchins
  10. Hitchinson
  11. Hitchiti

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