ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Hitching-bar

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Hitching-bar is a noun meaning A bar used to hitch a horse to a carriage.

Meaning

A bar used to hitch a horse to a carriage.

More Meanings

  1. A horizontal bar to which horses are tethered.

Example Sentences

At the hitch-bars along the street a few heavy work-horses, harnessed to farm wagons, shivered under their blankets.
He led us to a hitching-bar where two farm-wagons were tied, and I saw the foreign family crowding into one of them.

Word Forms

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include hitchrack, hitchrail, pole, drawbar, carriage, cabber.

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