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: a post of metal or wood on a wharf around which to fasten mooring lines
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chiefly British
: any of a series of short posts set at intervals to delimit an area (such as a traffic island) or to exclude vehicles
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The large concrete spheres, known as bollards, actually serve a *big* purpose: to keep cars from barreling in.
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Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 18 Sep. 2024
In large parts of the San Diego area, 30-foot bollards, or steel posts with narrow gaps, replaced barriers that once stood 10 or 20 feet high.
—Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
Days after the second death, the city installed plastic bollards between bike and car traffic on the route.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 27 July 2024
There is no separating the two now, despite all the separations: the gates, the fences, the bollards, the closures, the motorcades, the river itself — a metropolis clamping down yet very much breathing, waving the tricolor flag of sport, profit and patriotism.
—Dan Zak, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
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Francisco Velasquez, Quartz, 18 Sep. 2024
In large parts of the San Diego area, 30-foot bollards, or steel posts with narrow gaps, replaced barriers that once stood 10 or 20 feet high.
—Alex Riggins, The Mercury News, 12 Aug. 2024
Days after the second death, the city installed plastic bollards between bike and car traffic on the route.
—Andrew Keatts, Axios, 27 July 2024
There is no separating the two now, despite all the separations: the gates, the fences, the bollards, the closures, the motorcades, the river itself — a metropolis clamping down yet very much breathing, waving the tricolor flag of sport, profit and patriotism.
—Dan Zak, Washington Post, 26 July 2024
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bollard
noun
bol·lard
ˈbäl-ərd 
: a post of metal or wood on a wharf around which to fasten mooring lines
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