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  • past participle of bar.
  • past tense form of bar.
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barred

[bahrd] / bɑrd /






ADJECTIVE
striped
Synonyms


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"The most o' you important men live on the high side o' Main Street," birred Gourlay.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

"Ay, ay," he birred, "a fine job you have made of him!"

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

"Oh, ye was thinking that, was ye?" birred Gourlay, with a stupid man's repetition of his jibe.

From The House with the Green Shutters by Brown, George Douglas

He kicked the shabby case which whizzed and birred and struck five.

From From a Bench in Our Square by Adams, Samuel Hopkins

The saffron-coloured linen shirt was as national as the cloak and birred; so that Strafford rather introduced the linen manufacture among the new settlers than among the Irish.

From Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry by Rolleston, T. W. (Thomas William)




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