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bar ((n.)) † Placer Mining

• 1 n. a ridge of sand or gravel above the surface or along the shore of a stream in which gold has been found.

  See also: gold-bar  

  • 1859  One of us . . . went down and took up the first unoccupied claims at the lower end of the bar. . . .
  • 1958  . . . the miners and Governor Douglas . . . together with the Indians and renegade whites at Yale and some of the bars, did not live together in love and sweetness.

• 2 n. (often in place names) a gold-mining camp on or near a productive bar.

  • 1858  Let miners be allowed to make their own bye-laws and regulations for each bar or district, subject to the approbation of a council of miners.
  • 1958  When the word got to Hill's Bar, where the community spirit was strong, there was a great to-do.