[f. BAR sb.1]
† 1. A pleader at the bar; a barrister. Obs.
1657. Reeve, God’s Plea, 8. Oh rare Pleader! there is not such a Barre-man to be found.
2. One who prepares bars, e.g., of metal for the manufacture of wire.
1714. Mandeville, Fab. Bees (1725), I. 249. The silver-spinner, the flatter, the wire-drawer, the bar-man, and the refiner.
3. A man who serves at the bar of a public-house, etc. Cf. BAR sb.1 28.
1837. Duncumb, Brit. Emigrant’s Adv., 76. He instantly called for the bar-man and taxed him with the imposition.
1865. Ellen C. Clayton, Cruel Fortune, II. 165. The two barmaids commenced a most vigorous flirtation with the young barman, for whom they were pulling caps.
