A solid, more or less rigid object of metal or wood with a uniform cross-section smaller than its length. • A solid metal object with uniform (round, square, hexagonal, octagonal or rectangular) cross-section; in the US its smallest dimension is ¹⁄₄ inch or greater, a piece of thinner material being called a strip. • A cuboid piece of any solid commodity. • A broad shaft, band, or stripe. • A long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart. • Any of various lines used as punctuation or diacritics, such as the pipe ⟨|⟩, fraction bar (as in 12), and strikethrough (as in Ⱥ), formerly (obsolete) including oblique marks such as the slash. • The sign indicating that the characteristic of a logarithm is negative, conventionally placed above the digit(s) to show that it applies to the characteristic only and not to the mantissa. • A similar sign indicating that the charge on a particle is the negative of its usual value (and that consequently the particle is in fact an antiparticle). • A business selling alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises, or the premises themselves; a public house. • The counter of such premises. • A counter, or simply a cabinet, from which alcoholic drinks are served in a private house or a hotel room. • Premises or a counter serving any type of beverage. • An informal establishment selling food to be consumed on the premises. • An establishment offering cosmetic services. • An official order or pronouncement that prohibits some activity. • Anything that obstructs, hinders, or prevents; an obstruction; a barrier. • A dividing line (physical or notional) in the chamber of a legislature beyond which only members and officials may pass. • The railing surrounding the part of a courtroom in which the judges, lawyers, defendants and witnesses stay. • The bar exam, the legal licensing exam. • Collectively, lawyers or the legal profession; specifically applied to barristers in some countries, but including all lawyers in others. • One of an array of bar-shaped symbols that display the level of something, such as wireless signal strength or battery life remaining. • A vertical line across a musical staff dividing written music into sections, typically of equal durational value. • One of those musical sections. • Hip-hop lyrics, especially ones written and delivered skillfully. • Something well-said or well-written. • A horizontal pole that must be crossed in the high jump and pole vault. • Any level of achievement regarded as a challenge to be overcome; a standard or expectation. • The crossbar. • The central divider between the inner and outer table of a backgammon board, where stones are placed if they are hit. • An addition to a military medal, on account of a subsequent act. • A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially • A ridge or succession of ridges of sand or other substance; especially: • A linear shoaling landform feature within a body of water; a formation extending across the mouth of a river or harbor or off a beach, and which may obstruct navigation. (FM 55-501). • One of the ordinaries in heraldry; a diminutive of a fess. • A city gate, in some British place names. • A drilling or tamping rod. • A vein or dike crossing a lode. • A gatehouse of a castle or fortified town. • The part of the crust of a horse's hoof which is bent inwards towards the frog at the heel on each side, and extends into the centre of the sole. • The space between the tusks and grinders in the upper jaw of a horse, in which the bit is placed. • A measure of drugs, typically one ounce. • A small, tablet-shaped dose of Xanax, typically containing two milligrams and able to be split into quarters.