"bumper bar" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "bumper bars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "expansion": "bumper bar (plural bumper bars)",
      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, Oildom - Volume 11, Issues 2-11, page 6",
          "text": "By grasping the bumper bar at the center a slight backward pull accompanied by a lifting motion enables the driver to swing the bumper bar to a position where it will not in any way interfere with the filing of the buckets.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Ray Forest Kuns, Trailer Engineering, page 48",
          "text": "In order to attach the main iron to the bumper bar, an angle bar is run over the main iron and back of the bumper bar.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, Autobody and the Reconditioned Car - Volume 30, page 57",
          "text": "It is used to stiffen the assembly carrying the bumper bar, to carry the front edge of a tread plate if one is used for a rear step, and to hold the rear ends of hangers, indicated as H, if a spare tire carrier rack or compartment is added.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A metal bar or set of bars that are installed to protect the front or back of a vehicle."
      ],
      "id": "en-bumper_bar-en-noun-WrcW8SLJ",
      "links": [
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ],
        [
          "bar",
          "bar"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bumper bar"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bumper bars",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "bumper bar (plural bumper bars)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1920, Oildom - Volume 11, Issues 2-11, page 6",
          "text": "By grasping the bumper bar at the center a slight backward pull accompanied by a lifting motion enables the driver to swing the bumper bar to a position where it will not in any way interfere with the filing of the buckets.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1937, Ray Forest Kuns, Trailer Engineering, page 48",
          "text": "In order to attach the main iron to the bumper bar, an angle bar is run over the main iron and back of the bumper bar.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1951, Autobody and the Reconditioned Car - Volume 30, page 57",
          "text": "It is used to stiffen the assembly carrying the bumper bar, to carry the front edge of a tread plate if one is used for a rear step, and to hold the rear ends of hangers, indicated as H, if a spare tire carrier rack or compartment is added.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A metal bar or set of bars that are installed to protect the front or back of a vehicle."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "metal",
          "metal"
        ],
        [
          "bar",
          "bar"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bumper bar"
}