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Noun

1. 1
   A bar used to hitch a horse to a carriage.
2. 2
   A horizontal bar to which horses are tethered.

   "At the hitch-bars along the street a few heavy work-horses, harnessed to farm wagons, shivered under their blankets."

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"At the hitch-bars along the street a few heavy work-horses, harnessed to farm wagons, shivered under their blankets."

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