bar pad
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Noun[edit]
- (weightlifting) Synonym of barbell pad
- 2011, Nick Nilsson, The Best Arm Exercises You've Never Heard Of:
- Set the bar pad in the center of the bar. If you don't have a bar pad, it's easy enough to wrap a towel around the bar as well.
- 2019, Chloe Madeley, Transform Your Body With Weights:
- Lower the bar down so it is about 30cm off the ground and place a bar pad (a black, cushioned tube) around the centre of the horizontal bar.
- (motorcycling) A cushioned tube that fits over the handlebar.
- 2005 January, “BRP Under Bar Mount: Stability with protection”, in Cycle World Magazine, volume 44, number 1, page 86:
- Installation of the mount, locating tower and stabilizer is a simple bolt-on affair, with ony minor surgery to the provided bar pad required to make room for the damper's low-speed adjustment knob.
- 2021 December 9, “1983 HONDA CR480: BEHIND THE BUILD”, in Dirt Bike[1]:
- The vintage custom-vented number plate, steel handlebars and old-school bar pad just scream “1983 factory race machine.”
- A rubber pad on a leather plate, which fits across the bottom of a horseshoe to protect the frog of the horse's hoof.
- 1898, William Hunting, The Art of Horse-shoeing: A Manual for Farriers, page 120:
- For long-standing "corns," for cases of chronic laminitis, and for horses that markedly "go on their heels" the bar-pad is without doubt the most efficient arrangement yet invented.
- 1906, H. Caulton Reeks, Diseases of the Horse's Foot, page 129:
- For habitual use in such cases as prove obstinate to treatment, or where a complete cure was never from the commencement expected, the bar pad is undoubtedly one of the most useful inventions to our hand.
- 1912, W. J. Kent, “The Horse and His Feet”, in Bit & Spur, volume 11, number 11, page 39:
- This is not only the case in driving horses but also in draught horses, as their feet are proportionately larger and the ground surface of the largest bar pad does not exceed over two inches.