In Scottish and Northern English dialect, a bar or a strip of something; also an old unit of measurement for land.
From Old English 'bær' and related to Old Norse 'barr,' ultimately connected to words meaning 'bare' or 'exposed.' The sense evolved from a bare or open space to a physical barrier or measuring rod.
Scottish dialect words like 'baar' preserve some of the oldest forms of English from over a thousand years ago—they're like linguistic fossils that help us understand how language sounded in medieval times.
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