单词 | unbarred |
释义 | unbarredadj. 1. Of harbours: Not obstructed by a bar. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > berthing, mooring, or anchoring > harbour or port > [adjective] > types of harbour unbarreda1552 barred1552 wind-bound1614 shoaled1867 a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) III. 8 Ther cam to this Place ons, the Haven beyng onbarrid and syns chokid with Tynne Workes, good talle Shippes. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 177 These are..the principal unbarred havens. 2. Not secured or blocked with a bar or bars. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > [adjective] > open and unobstructed > by barrier, lattice, etc. unbarred1603 untrellised1629 unlatticed1794 unbarricadoed1795 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 165 Making no resistance to his appetites and demaunds, but letting all ly unfortified, unbard, and unlockt. 1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 656 Weymouth,..whose hospitable Gate, Unbarr'd to All, invites a numerous Train Of daily Guests. 1811 Ld. Dudley Lett. to ‘Ivy’ (1905) 147 The doors are all left unbarred, and yet I never heard of anything being stolen. 1871 Daily News 18 Sept. Gallopers explored the railway line right and left to find sound bridges or unbarred level crossings. 3. Law. Not excluded or blocked. (bar v. 5b.) ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > [adjective] > that binds or debars > not debarred unbarred1805 1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Property V. 499 An intail..had lasted three hundred and sixty years... Its having been so long unbarred, gives a presumption, that the owners knew it was unbarrable. 1877 R. D. Blackmore Erema li As to the property,..the greater part would descend to me under unbarred settlement. 4. Not marked with a bar or minus sign. ΚΠ 1878 H. P. Gurney Crystallogr. 16 All of these numbers are unbarred. 5. Of music: Not divided into bars. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [adjective] > barred > not unbarred1879 1879 G. Grove Dict. Music I. 137/2 In this kind of unbarred music the relative value of the notes must be..preserved. 1901 Westm. Gaz. 5 Feb. 1/3 Old madrigals from the separate and unbarred part books for the Musical Antiquarian Society. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < |
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