"bumper bar" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: bumper bars [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} bumper bar (plural bumper bars)
  1. A metal bar or set of bars that are installed to protect the front or back of a vehicle. Categories (topical): Automotive Translations (metal bar): 保險槓 (Chinese Mandarin), 保险杠 (bǎoxiǎngàng) (Chinese Mandarin), teräspuskuri (english: steel) (Finnish), puskuri (english: any bumper in general) (Finnish), pare-chocs [masculine] (French)

Inflected forms

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          "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.",
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        {
          "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.",
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          "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.",
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          "word": "保險槓"
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          "english": "steel",
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          "sense": "metal bar",
          "word": "teräspuskuri"
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      "sense": "metal bar",
      "word": "保險槓"
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      "sense": "metal bar",
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