[a. F. bar ‘the fish called a Base’ (Cotgr.)] A large acanthopterygious European fish (Sciæna aquila), also known as the maigre.
1724. De Foe, etc., Tour Gt. Brit. (1769), III. 341. [In Jersey is found] the Bar, an exquisite Fish, sometimes two feet in length.
1863. Life in Norm., I. 166. I sold them all, except one nice bar and a brill.
Bar sb.4 (= G. berg): see BARMASTER, BARMOTE.
