An ordinary, like a fess but narrower, occupying only one fifth part of the field.

A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.

To cross with one or more stripes or lines.

In heraldry, an ordinary stripe, crossing the center of the heraldic field in a horizontal manner. Normally it occupies 1/3 of the shield.

A diminutive of the fess occupying about a fifth of the total depth of the shield

n. a narrow horizontal stripe across the middle.

A bar is a smaller version of a fess. If there is more than one horizontal line across a shield, of if there is only one but it's unusually small, then it is called a bar, (or if smaller, a barrulet).

CODE - A small white label with closely spaced black stripes that can be read by a computer. Bar codes on books and on your student identification card are used to charge out books from the library.

A horizontal band of colour or metal on the field of a flag. In heraldry it is sometimes regarded as a diminutive of fess, however, it is rarely borne singly and heraldic use frequently suggests that it should be about one-fifth the width of the field. In vexillology fess and bar are regarded as almost synonymous, with the difference that a fess is confined to the centreline of the field, whereas bar is not.