bollard
bo lerd
- n a strong post (as on a wharf or quay or ship for attaching mooring lines)
the road was closed to vehicular traffic with bollards
- It is only one of a scattering of Harries' bronzesa stuffed shopping bag abandoned by a phone booth, a half-eaten lunch left on a bollardthat grace Chelsea, Mass.
- With trembling hands he lashed the first corvette line to a bollard.
- Erie Canal follows a barge through Clinton's Ditch (circa 1850), seen in four seasons and drawn down to the last mule harness and quayside bollard.