A wide, usually wooden gate consisting of five horizontal bars and one or more diagonal braces, typically used as a field gate for livestock or as an entrance to a rural driveway.
The only revenge which the younger Clergy cou’d return, wou’d be to order that whosoever cou’d not read a Geneva-Bible at two yards distance and vault over a five-barr’d Gate, should forfeit his Mitre
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(UK) Tally marks representing 5, made up of four vertical lines crossed by a diagonal line, used to count objects, keep score, etc.
they set out together, and with some difficulty found Gilbert [the horse] with his neck stretched over a five-barred gate, snuffing up the morning-air.
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