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upbarring

upbarring is the present participle and gerund of upbar.

Meaning of upbar

Verb

upbar (third-person singular simple present upbars, present participle upbarring, simple past and past participle upbarred)

  1. (rare, transitive) To fasten with a bar.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To remove the bar or bars of, as a gate; to unbar.
    • He running down , the gate to him upbar'd1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about upbarring

What is upbarring the present participle and gerund of?
Upbarring is the present participle and gerund of upbar.

Words near upbarring in the dictionary

  1. UPB
  2. upback
  3. upbacks
  4. upbar
  5. upbarred
  6. upbarring
  7. upbars
  8. upbay
  9. upbear
  10. upbearer
  11. upbearers

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