drawbar (drabar)

1. A bar used to connect two railroad-cars or locomotives. See drag- bar. [U. S.] The higher the draw - bar is above the rails the greater will be the tendency to pull the engine down behind and up in front. Forney, Locomotive, p. 334. 2. A bar, or one of a set of bars, in a fence, which can be drawn back or let down to allow pa age, as along a road or path. [U. S.] They were now stopped by some draw bars , which pa ed, they found themselves ascending a steep incline sown with large stones. Harper's Mag., LXXVI. 202.