These were erected at various points outside the Walls, to mark the extreme limits of the City Liberties, and consisted of posts, rails and a chain. At Temple Bar, these were afterwards replaced by a Gate.
At the north end of Aldersgate Street, marking the boundary of the City liberties in that direction....
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
Across Holborn, at its western end, at Gray's Inn Lane, being the western boundary of the City (Rocq...
At the north end of West Smithfield dividing the Liberty of the City from the County, on the norther...
These bars marked the eastern boundary of the City's liberties outside the walls and were at the jun...
Long pieces of wood of the best ash or hickory, one end of which is thrust into the square holes in ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Round bars of iron, bent at each end, used as levers to turn the shank of an anchor. ...
The range fronting a steam-boiler. ...
To secure the hatches; are padlocked and sealed. ...
Strong pieces of oak, furnished with two laniards, by which the ports are secured from flying open i...
, or stay-rods. Strong malleable iron bars for supporting the framings of the marine steam-engine....
Mentioned in Strype's description of the bounds of Portsoken Ward, the bounds, after the Bars, cross...