upbar

up- +‎ bar

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

1. (transitive, rare) To fasten with a bar.
2. (transitive, obsolete) To remove the bar or bars of, as a gate; to unbar.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Edmund Spenser to this entry?)

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