This game is known in America as “Spans.”—Newell, p. 188.
Bar
To play at “Bar,” a species of game anciently used in Scotland.—Jamieson.
This game had in ancient times in England been simply denominated “Bars,” or, as in an Act of James IV., 1491, edit. 1814, p. 227: “That na induellare within burgh . . . play at bar,” “playing at Bars.”
See “[Prisoner’s Base].”
Barbarie, King of the
O will you surrender, O will you surrender
To the King of the Barbarie?