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bar noun
1 a stone or rock 19-.
2 a pound sterling; money in general 19-. etymology: Romany attests bar with the same meaning; also collected by Simson (1865) and attested by two of his informants; also attested by Galloway and Perthshire and Argyleshire Tinkler-Gypsies; sense 2 attested by DW note:

Grellmann (1787) collected bar with the same meaning as sense 1 from Continental gipsies. Smart & Crofton (1875) collected bar with the same meaning as senses 1 and 2 from English Gypsies.