My vocabulary builder for you for today: ‘bollard’
I’ve written a million or so words, probably, in my lifetime. I’ve read probably nearly a million books, both fiction and non-fiction. Okay, maybe that’s a few too many books — million’s a pretty big library, isn’t it?
In all of my reading and writing, I’ve never before encountered the word “bollard,” before I ran onto it at my “Useful Website” offering for this morning — TrafficGuard Direct. If your church or civic group, perhaps even your next writers’ club meeting, needs some sort of traffic control barriers, this is the site to find the security bollards you’re looking for.
Bollards? Yes. They’re the usually round, heavy posts you find on a pier for securing boat lines, OR, they are the posts and barriers you’ve seen blocking off locations and defining traffic patterns in parking lots — usually removable.
If you’re in the need of parking lot controls, or more likely you work for a company with such parking lot needs, TrafficGuard Direct is the site you need to see. If you’re just suffering from the healthy sort of curiosity you should have as a writer, it’s definitely a site you should see.
And if you want to impress your friends in trivia games, upholding the honor of writers everywhere, remember “bollard.”
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That’s a new one for me. If I saw the word standing alone without any context to go by, my guess would be a dull person.