A submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore

Usage examples of bar.

I mind was inside the bar of San Lucar, and he and I were boys about a ten year old, aboord of a Dartmouth ship, and went for wine, and there come in over the bar he that was the beginning of it all.

Bar area of Western Australia for the Aboriginal people of the Warburton Ranges area.

I should have shot the bastard, Ace thought as he continued on to the bar.

As the closing bars of the elegant waltz filled the ballroom, Acer shoved his way drunkenly through the dancers, marching toward Rackford and Daphne.

After paying a pretty penny to both the informant and the owner of the bar, I found out that Adeem visited quite frequently.

They contain such items as spare parts, chemical supplies, emergency seeds for restarting aeroponics, sheet and bar metal.

The Federal authorities, finally, are responsible for the Sherman Anti-Trust Law, whose existence on the statute books is a fatal bar to the treatment of the problem of corporate aggrandizement from the standpoint of genuinely national policy.

Only later would the hair develop the dark and light bars of the typical agouti coloration of an adult wolf -- if it would at all.

I had five boxes of Fiddle Faddle, two bags of Double-Stuff Oreo cookies, a ten-pack of Snickers bars, two bags of Fritos and one of Doritos, seven Gogurts in a variety of flavors, one bag of Chips Ahoy chocolate chip cookies, a box of Count Chocula, a two-pound bag of Skittles, and a six-pack of Yoo-Hoo locked in my room.

A bomb aimer was sick in the bar after drinking whisky mixed with rum.

And every year, on the feast of First God Ait, Jair had offered up another thousand bars of gold.

The supporting poles were kicked aside, and before they hit the ground Erik and Akee, along with two other men, were lifting the heavy oaken bar out of the brackets that held it in place.

He planned an album of Texspeak: homilies, humour and bar talk in a Texas accent.

Antryg said softly, and a shiver went through him, although the bar, with its close-packed bodies, its smells of cigarettes and beer and synthetic aldehyde, was warm as a Jacuzzi.

Dropping the ax, Alec dashed to the gate, heaved the heavy bar out of its brackets, and pushed the doors wide.