bar
noun
a relatively long, evenly shaped piece of some solid substance, as metal or wood, used as a guard or obstruction or for some mechanical purpose.
Used to describe an action that will be fully completed or achieved by a specific point in the future.
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Long ere this snow will have barred the way through the one pass that leads out and we are prisoners—the three of us.
From Claire The Blind Love of a Blind Hero, By a Blind Author by Leslie Burton Blades