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/bˈæriər/ /bˈɛriər/ Listen

noun

Barrier n.

(Fort.) A carpentry obstruction, stockade, or other obstacle made in a passage in order to stop an enemy.

A fortress or fortified town, on the frontier of a country, commanding an avenue of approach.

pl. A fence or railing to mark the limits of a place, or to keep back a crowd. "No sooner were the barriers opened, than he paced into the lists."

Any obstruction; anything which hinders approach or attack. "Constitutional barriers."

Any limit or boundary; a line of separation. "'Twixt that (instinct) and reason, what a nice barrier!"

Barrier gate, a heavy gate to close the opening through a barrier.

Barrier reef, a form of coral reef which runs in the general direction of the shore, and incloses a lagoon channel more or less extensive.

To fight at barriers, to fight with a barrier between, as a martial exercise. (Obs.)

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"Barrier" Quotes from Famous Books

... Beyond Llwyngwril, to which the line was opened for traffic in November, 1863,—the engines and coaches had been brought by barge across the Dovey from Ynyslas—there lay a still more formidable barrier to rapid progress. For the cliffs hereabouts, which, with their steep declivity down to the rock-strewn shore, left scarcely a foothold for the wandering mountain sheep, were enough to daunt the heart of any but the most courageous ...

— The Story of the Cambrian - A Biography of a Railway • C. P. Gasquoine

... should grudge this new view being smothered in your address, and should like to see a separate paper. The one great channel to Santorin and Palma, etc., etc., is just like the one main channel being kept open in atolls and encircling barrier reefs, and on the same principle of water being driven ...

— More Letters of Charles Darwin Volume II - Volume II (of II) • Charles Darwin

... conflict had been postponed by the existence of a barrier state,—the Iroquois, or Six Nations of Indians. This fierce, brave, and statesmanlike race held a strip of the watershed from Lake Champlain to the Allegheny River. For many years they had been subject to English influence, exercised ...

— Formation of the Union • Albert Bushnell Hart

... any other upon earth, has to be alarmed at this revolution of property. Richer than any other nation, you have more to apprehend; besides, it threatens you more, both as our frequent enemies and as our national rivals; as a barrier against our plans of universal dominion, and as our superiors in pecuniary resources. May we never live to see the day when the mandates of Bonaparte or Talleyrand are honoured at London, as at ...

— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton

... morning of the 28th the sound of breakers could be heard plainly; they had reached the Great Barrier Reef, which runs up much of the east coast ...

— The Junior Classics • Various

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