ppl. a. [UN-1 8.]
1. Of harbors: Not obstructed by a bar.
a. 1550. Leland, Itin., III. (1907), 192. Ther cam to this place ons, the haven beyng onbarrid and syns chokid with tynne workes, good talle shippes.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 177. These are … the principal unbarred havens.
2. Not secured or blocked with a bar or bars.
1603. Holland, Plutarch’s Mor., 165. Making no resistance to his appetites and demaunds, but letting all ly unfortified, unbard, and unlockt.
1708. J. Philips, Cyder, I. 656. Weymouth,… whose hospitable Gate, Unbarr’d to All, invites a numerous Train Of daily Guests.
1811. Ld. Dudley, Lett. to ‘Ivy’ (1905), 147. The doors are all left unbarred, and yet I never heard of anything being stolen.
1871. Daily News, 18 Sept. Gallopers explored the railway line right and left to find sound bridges or unbarred level crossings.
3. Law. Not excluded or blocked. (BAR v. 5 b.)
1818. [see UNBARRABLE a.].
1877. Blackmore, Erema, li. As to the property,… the greater part would descend to me under unbarred settlement.
4. Not marked with a bar or minus sign.
1878. Gurney, Crystallogr., 16. All of these numbers are unbarred.
5. Of music: Not divided into bars.
1879. Grove’s Dict. Mus., I. 137/2. In this kind of unbarred music the relative value of the notes must be preserved.
1901. Westm. Gaz., 5 Feb., 1/3. Old madrigals from the separate and unbarred part books for the Musical Antiquarian Society.
