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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
bollard
noun
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▪ A bollard trying to grow a beard.
▪ He'd cried out before he realized what the obstruction was: a pile of bollards.
▪ It is a well known fact that designers plant a line of bollards when they do not know what to do.
▪ Make a point of crossing where there is a central bollard.
▪ Motorway bollards were due to be removed at one thirty for the first customers to stream in.
▪ Somehow, bollards still in place, they got in 20 minutes earlier.
▪ The bollards at each end have been successful in keeping out vehicles, without impeding the passage of bicycles, prams etc.
▪ The entrances to the path will be protected by bollards and a chicane, to stop any unauthorised traffic.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bollard

Bollard \Bol"lard\, n. [Cf. Bole the stem of a tree, and Pollard.] An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.

Bollard timber (Naut.), a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
bollard

1844, originally a post for fixing mooring ropes; since 1948, usually a traffic control device; probably from bole + suffix -ard.

Wiktionary
bollard

n. 1 (context nautical English) A strong vertical post of timber or iron, fixed to the ground and/or on the deck of a ship, to which the ship's mooring lines etc are secured. 2 A similar post preventing vehicle access to a pedestrian area, to delineate traffic lanes, or used for security purposes.

WordNet
bollard

n. a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines); "the road was closed to vehicular traffic with bollards" [syn: bitt]

Wikipedia
Bollard

A bollard is a short vertical post. Originally it meant a post used on a ship or a quay, principally for mooring. The word now also describes a variety of structures to control or direct road traffic, such as posts arranged in a line to obstruct the passage of motor vehicles. The term can also be used to describe short, post-like light fixtures.

Bollard (disambiguation)

A bollard is a short vertical post used in maritime contexts for mooring or towing craft, or on land for traffic control.

Bollard may also refer to:

Usage examples of "bollard".

I traversed toward it, digging and hardening a bollard in a peak of snow to make a belay as a precaution.

The two watched as Bannat caught the first line and snugged it to the inshore bollard, then ran out to the end of the pier, where he caught the second.

Higher up, the port of Ripetta opens like a fan with its stone steps, its iron bollards, its low walls of unplastered brick, its seats of white marble, its bustle of longshoremen.

Judging his distance the anchorman crouched, then leapt onto the jetty, wrapping his rope round a bollard while the oarsmen backed water.

In windbreaker and knickers he sticks fast to his bollard, he grinds, before attacking the bottle, goes on grinding the same song as soon as the bottleneck is released, and keeps on blunting his teeth.

The line handlers scurried to their tasks, the pier line handlers from ComSubDevRon 12 tossing over the lines that were looped around the massive bollards to the deck gang, which coiled them quickly on the deck and stuffed them into line lockers, shutting the hatches of the lockers and rotating the cleats into the hull, the ship beginning to look like it had never been tied to a pier.

The lockkeeper went into his booth beside the canal and turned on bollard lights at each end of the lock.

In Muggle villages and especially the larger cities there are notices all over the bollards about it, and in every shop window you can imagine.

A blocky woman was crouched between bollards on the deck of the closest barge, tapline attached to a test node, workboard on her lap, and Damian lifted his hand to get her attention.

All the hawsers by which the Swede is clinging to the bollards are grinding.

Mooring bollards, four in number, lined the eastern side of the boathouse.

Hutchinson that the bollards were on the starboard side of the boathouse, so that the diving-boat would be tied up on that side.

She dodged among bollards and barrels, carts and trucks, dockers and hauliers, the crowd less dense but its components faster and heavier.

A pair of seamen are still tying lines to the bollards on the pier as Dorrin steps onto the weathered planks.

He scrambled up a ladder onto the dock, and purposely brushed against Crutcher as he looped the line around a small bollard.