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Embar


EMB'AR, verb transitive [en and bar.] To shut, close or fasten with a bar; to make fast.

1. To inclose so as to hinder egress or escape.

When fast embarr'd in mighty brazen wall.

2. To stop; to shut from entering; to hinder; to block up.

He embarred all further trade.