[f. BAR v. + -ING1.] The action of the vb. BAR: a. Fastening up, in, or out, with a bar or bars. b. Exclusion, prohibition. c. Marking or ornamentation with bars.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Pers. T., ¶ 343. The cost of embrowdynge the degise, endentynge, barrynge … and semblable wast of clooth.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 24. Barrynge of dorys, repagulacio. Barrynge of harneys, stipacio.
1638. Penit. Conf., iii. (1657), 32. The exclusion and barring of haynous offenders from the assembly of Christians.
1874. Chappell, Hist. Mus., I. viii. 166. When bars were first introduced, they were mere measures of time, therefore old barring is not to be followed implicitly.
1875. Poste, Gaius, III. 448. The barring of any subsequent suit.
d. Barring-out: a mode of schoolboy rebellion, when they shut the schoolroom or house against the master, and refuse to admit him until their demands are conceded.
1728. Swift, Jrnl. Mod. Lady, Wks. 1755, III. II. 194. Not school-boys at a barring-out Rais’d ever such incessant rout.
1847. Tennyson, Princ., Concl. 66. Revolts, republics, revolutions, most No graver than a schoolboys’ barring-out.
1876. Grant, Burgh. Sch. Scot., II. v. 188. Another barring-out in the high School of Edinburgh, ended more tragically.
e. attrib., as in Barring engine: small auxiliary engine for starting large mill engines; so called from the employment of a crow-bar to move a fly-wheel round for a portion of a revolution, and assist in setting the engine going.
1885. Engineer, 22 May. New Patent Barring Engine.
