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Definition of Hitching bar
1. Noun. A fixed horizontal rail to which a horse can be hitched to prevent it from straying.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hitching Bar
Literary usage of Hitching bar
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual of Heavy Artillery Service: For the Use of the Army and Militia of by John Caldwell Tidball (1891)
"Hay can be fed to them by tying it up tightly in bundles with rope-yarn and
fastening the bundles to the hitching-bar. It may also be fed in small ..."
2. Handbook for Light Artillery by Alexander Brydie Dyer (1896)
"The horses may be fed from nose-bags, but it is better to have for each one a
small trough, suspended to the hitching-bar by means of two iron hooks passing ..."
3. The Riverside Magazine for Young People by Horace Elisha Scudder (1870)
"... the rows of saddle-horses with long curbs and heavy saddles, that were always
pawing and neighing at the hitching bars — a hitching bar for every house ..."
4. St. Nicholas by Mary Mapes Dodge (1906)
"There are two boys "doing stunts" on the hitching-bar, another who looks as if
he were playing "duck on a rock" only the rock is an iron pot, and there is a ..."
5. On the frontier: reminiscences of wild sports, personal adventures, and by J. S. Campion (1878)
"Morning came. It was still snowing, more determinedly than ever. The loose animals
had run off as before. The three mules tied up to the hitching bar, ..."
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