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Unbar

verb

Remove a bar from (a door).

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"Unbar" Quotes from Famous Books

... the door, and went down the stairs with all the outraged majesty of a Boadicea. The three of them followed her quietly, and at the bottom Tinker bade Dorothy and Elsie unbar the door of the house and himself kept close behind Selina. She opened the door of the room; and at the sight of her the sustained shriek in which the Italian and the Frenchman were conversing died suddenly down, and the ...

— The Admirable Tinker - Child of the World • Edgar Jepson

... Mr. Manisty,' said Lucy hurriedly. 'He was out when I came through the glass passage. The doors were all open, and his lamp burning.' I am nearly sure that I heard him unbar the front door. I must wait now till he ...

— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... knock at the door broke in upon her musings. She rose, trembling with fear, to unbar the entrance, and beheld a man closely muffled in a cloak. "My good woman," said he, "will you grant a poor traveler the shelter ...

— Sanders' Union Fourth Reader • Charles W. Sanders

... and walked to one of the long windows, which he opened. The outer shutters remained closed, and he did not unbar them, but ...

— In Kedar's Tents • Henry Seton Merriman

... with ringing foot toward the stairway, and dropped upon one knee to unbar the door in the pavement. He took a key from his pocket and turned it in the lock, and, as he lifted the heavy leaf of beams and crosspieces, his lady held over the darkness a candle, which she had taken from one of the buffet sconces. Out of the vault rose ...

— The Lady of Fort St. John • Mary Hartwell Catherwood

Words linked to "Unbar" : undo, bar, open up, open