Yes, bar is a Scrabble word!

Verb

1. Prevent from entering; keep out

2. Render unsuitable for passage

3. Expel, as if by official decree

4. Secure with, or as if with, bars

Noun

1. A room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter

2. A counter where you can obtain food or drink

3. A rigid piece of metal or wood; usually used as a fastening or obstruction or weapon

4. Musical notation for a repeating pattern of musical beats

5. An obstruction (usually metal) placed at the top of a goal

6. The act of preventing

7. (meteorology) a unit of pressure equal to a million dynes per square centimeter

8. A submerged (or partly submerged) ridge in a river or along a shore

9. The body of individuals qualified to practice law in a particular jurisdiction

10. A narrow marking of a different color or texture from the background

11. A block of solid substance (such as soap or wax)

12. A portable .30 caliber automatic rifle operated by gas pressure and fed by cartridges from a magazine; used by United States troops in World War I and in World War II and in the Korean War

13. A horizontal rod that serves as a support for gymnasts as they perform exercises

14. A heating element in an electric fire

15. (law) a railing that encloses the part of the courtroom where the judges and lawyers sit and the case is tried