bollard
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7.1
- noun
- /ˈbɑːlɚd/
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bolardo
- Also, it looks like there are holes where bollards will be inserted, between the bike lane and the road.
- foot bollards
- wooden bollard
- 30-foot bollard
He he was hard on the throttle, driving straight towards a concrete bollard.
- He he was hard on the throttle, driving straight towards a concrete bollard.
- And he says, were the Anthony Gormley bollards the highlight of your career?
Examples
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Paved paths meant for cyclist use alongside major streets, separated by a physical barrier (e.g., a curb or bollards).
Academic text (2012) -
The block and tackle had been rigged from one of the bollards at the end of the pier.
Fiction book (1996) -
He was leaning against a bollard, smoking his pipe in the quickly falling dark.
Fiction book (2000) -
I saw the silhouette of a lone bollard rising like a mushroom by a canal, with one small boat tied to it.
Academic text (2009) -
Candlestick bollards don't hold up well to being hit by cars, that's for sure.
Blog text (25) -
Before he went up to the house, he sat with his back to a pierside bollard and smoked a cigarette, then walked nervously up the path.
Fiction book (2000) -
Thicker hawsers followed, and it took no more than a handful of minutes to wrap them around the mooring bollards and lower a plank from the pier.
Fiction book (1999) -
City officials said bollards will be installed to keep cars out.
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The sturdy bollards are our best defense against the use of vehicles as weapons.
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Thirty-foot bollards are replacing 20-year-old metal fencing stretching just over two miles in Calexico, California.
Synonyms
A strong post on a ship or pier that you wrap a rope around to hold the boat
How Sturdy
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bollard comes from an old word for a short, thick 'tree trunk' used as a post. Think of bole ('tree trunk'): a bollard is like a small trunk put in the ground to hold a boat's rope or to stop cars, which is why today bollards are strong posts on docks and streets.