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Definition of Handle-bars
1. Noun. A large bushy moustache (with hair growing sometimes down the sides of the mouth).
Lexicographical Neighbors of Handle-bars
Literary usage of Handle-bars
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cycling by William Coutts Keppel Albemarle, George Lacy Hillier (1887)
"The first handle-bars were straight, passing through the boss of the head and
being continued ... handle-bars. path, and ' dropped handles' became the rage. ..."
2. Ohio Circuit Court Reports: New Series. Cases Adjudged in the Circuit Courts by Ohio Circuit Courts (1904)
""The said HJ Young, for himself, successors or assigns, further agrees hereby to
manufacture and sell not less than 10000 of aforesaid handle bars on or ..."
3. The Friendly Arctic: The Story of Five Years in Polar Regions by Vilhjalmur Stefansson (1921)
"But Captain Bernard unfortunately had his hands on the handle-bars and when the
sled dropped failed to let go. By the weight of the sled he was pulled ..."
4. The Practical Tool-maker and Designer: A Treatise Upon the Designing of by Herbert S. Wilson (1898)
"Handle bars—cut off and bent from cold drawn steel tubes. These bars, as a usual
thing, are bent with a die, and to prevent flattening where the bends are ..."
5. The Basketry Book: Twelve Lessons in Reed Weaving by Mary Miles Blanchard (1914)
"A split handle consists of two handle-bars ... Allow two side spokes between the
two spokes carrying the handle-bars. Insert the other ends of the two bars ..."
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