porter barn.1
/ˈpɔːtə bɑː/, U.S. /ˈpɔrdər ˌbɑr/ Founding.
An iron bar extending from a heavy body to be forged, by which it may be guided beneath a hammer or into a furnace; = porter n.2 2c.
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1887 Times 22 Dec. 13/3 His Lordship must also conclude from the evidence that the gas-tongs arrangement would work, and both these processes..secured freedom from the danger which appertained to the old porter-bar arrangement.
1978 J. E. Horsley Tools Maritime Trades viii. 240 Various stages in the making of an anchor stock, and the use of the various porter bars for handling it.
1992 Metallurgia (Nexis) 59 395 Old-fashioned manipulating techniques which used a porter bar and rotating chain on an overhead crane.
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porter barn.2
/ˈpɔːtə bɑː/, U.S. /ˈpɔrdər ˌbɑr/ A bar selling porter (porter n.3).
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1935 D. Thomas Coll. Lett. (1987) 157 One day a week I shall walk the miles to Glendormatie where there is a shop and porter bar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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