hitching-bar

English

Alternative forms

• hitch-bar

Noun

hitching-bar (plural hitching-bars)

1. A bar used to hitch a horse to a carriage.
2. A horizontal bar to which horses are tethered.
   • 1913, Willa Cather, O Pioneers!:

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

   • 1918, Willa Cather, My Antonia, paperback edition, Mirado Modern Classics, page 7:

     He led us to a hitching-bar where two farm-wagons were tied, and I saw the foreign family crowding into one of them.

See also

• hitching post