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barring (n.)
late 14c., "act of fastening with a bar," verbal noun from
bar
(v.). Meaning "exclusion" is from 1630s. As a preposition, "excepting, excluding," it is from late 15c. Schoolhouse prank of
barring out
the teacher was in use before 1728.
