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UK
/bˈɒlɑːd/
]
[ US /ˈbɑɫɝd/ ]
[ US /ˈbɑɫɝd/ ]
NOUN
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a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines)
the road was closed to vehicular traffic with bollards
How To Use bollard In A Sentence
- The town hall lost two bollards and a litter bin, railings, and a large stone pedestal has been cracked.
- On an ancient stone stump, about three feet thick and three feet high, used for securing ships by ropes to the shore, and called a bollard or holdfast, an elderly gentleman sits facing the land with his head bowed and his face in his hands, sobbing. Back to Methuselah
- The bollards at each end have been successful in keeping out vehicles, without impeding the passage of bicycles, prams etc.
- The only apparent purpose of these bollards is to prevent vehicles overtaking.
- Successfully managed to crash the car by scraping the side along some concrete bollards.
- A MAN has had his driveway blocked by concrete bollards in a dispute over parking. The Sun
- These tests involve ordering the driver to walk in a straight line, touch their nose or walk round traffic cones or bollards.
- He parked alongside some piles of pallets stacked on the quayside which were very close to the bollards to which the starboard mooring lines were secured.
- More than 1,500 trees will be planted and concrete bollards will be strewn throughout the area.
- In places it is punctured by bollards and peeled back to form benches, revealing glazed voids packed with multi-coloured fluorescent tubes that scintillate seductively with kaleidoscopic light.