English

Verb

bar out ‎(third-person singular simple present bars out, present participle barring out, simple past and past participle barred out)

1. (obsolete) To close the doors of a classroom against (a schoolmaster); a boyish mode of rebellion in schools.
   • 1913, Chesterton, The Victorian Age in Literature, chapter 3:

     We feel that it is a disgrace to a man like Tennyson, when he talks of the French revolutions, the huge crusades that had recreated the whole of his civilisation, as being "no graver than a schoolboy's barring out."

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Swift to this entry?)

Anagrams

• outbar
• rubato
• tabour