Meaning of bar out | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To keep (someone or something) from entering.
   literally, transitive
2. To shut a teacher out of the classroom as a prank.
   obsolete

Examples

“Not schoolboys at a barring out Rais’d ever such incessant rout”

“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."”

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