rebar

Or re-bar

[ree-bahr]

noun

Building Trades Informal.

1. a steel bar or rod used to reinforce concrete.

Word History and Origins

Origin of rebar¹

1960–65, re(inforcing) bar

Example Sentences

Schachter told Barron’s he owns steel and iron ore producer Cleveland-Cliffs and rebar manufacturer Commercial Metals in the Snow Small Cap Value Fund.

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It’s also relatively cheap — Martinez paid $27 per block, and her 1,956-square-foot rebuild will require around 600 blocks, which stack like Legos, forming a grid with hollow cores that are then filled with concrete and rebar.

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In the living room, for example, Brettler cleverly hung a Midcentury ceramic wall hanging from a curved piece of rebar she mounted on top of a storage unit.

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It’s made of rebar and colorful glass bottles, and shines differently depending on the light that day.

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After each hole is drilled, a crane slowly lifts a 70-foot-long wire straw called a rebar cage and, inch by inch, lowers it into the hole.

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