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Webster 1913 Edition


Bollard

Bol′lard

,
Noun.
[Cf.
Bole
the stem of a tree, and
Pollard
.]
An upright wooden or iron post in a boat or on a dock, used in veering or fastening ropes.
Bollard timber
(Naut.)
,
a timber, also called a knighthead, rising just within the stem in a ship, on either side of the bowsprit, to secure its end.

Definition 2024


bollard

bollard

English

Two bollards (ship mooring posts)
Concrete bollards segregating a pedestrian area from a roadway

Noun

bollard (plural bollards)

  1. (nautical) A strong vertical post of timber or iron, fixed to the ground and/or on the deck of a ship, to which the ship's mooring lines etc are secured.
    • 1959, Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone:
      Today he had for bollard the unfinished monument half-erected to some all but forgotten anarchist.
    • 1965, Poul Anderson, The Star Fox:
      He sat on a bollard, looking out across the water, a man more small and shabby than expected.
  2. A similar post preventing vehicle access to a pedestrian area, to delineate traffic lanes, or used for security purposes.

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See also

  • (traffic bollard): cone