1 Obstacle, hindrance, impediment.

2 The bolt or bar of a door.

3 The supporting beam of a house.

4 A post, pillar.

5 A tree.

6 (In dramas) An interlude between the acts of a drama and performed by one or more charac- ters, middling or inferior, who con- nect the story of the drama and the subdivisions of the plot by briefly explaining to the audience what has occurred in the intervals of the acts or what...