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barr (三人称単数 現在形 barrs, 現在分詞 barring, 過去形および過去分詞形 barred)

1. (obsolete) To make the sound of an elephant.
   • 1737, Rabelais, François, Thomas Urquhart, transl.,(Please provide the book title または journal name):

     He gave us also the example of the Philosopher, who, when he thought most seriously to have withdrawn himself unto a solitary Privacy, far from the rufling Clutterments of the tumultuous and confused World, the better to improve his Theory, to contrive, comment, and ratiocinate, was, notwithstanding his uttermost Endeavours to free himself from all untowards Noises, surrounded and environ'd about so with the barking of Curs, howling of Wolves, neighing of Horses, bleating of Sheep, barring of Elephants, hissing of Serpents, braying of Asses, chirping of Grasshoppers, cooing of Turtles […]