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It's a ditch or "barrow" along a a road dug for drainge purposes. My guess is people walking or riding a horse or mule along one home from a bar sometimes woke up in one the next morning.
A mystery Wickpedia couldn't totally solve.
 
Fajita's hog story reminds me of when i was a little kid. My mom hits a deer , im 7 at the time and freaking out . The dps trooper pulls up ...... And i told on my mom .... She recalls me saying " officer my mommy killed bamby".
 
51eleven":lujx8hvy said:
It's a ditch or "barrow" along a a road dug for drainge purposes. My guess is people walking or riding a horse or mule along one home from a bar sometimes woke up in one the next morning.
A mystery Wickpedia couldn't totally solve.
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It was called a barrow ditch and was shortened to bar ditch.
 
The slang term bar ditch supposedly comes from barrow ditch when hand labor and wheelbarrows were used to haul dirt dug from a ditch and dumped into the roadbed to raise it above the surrounding terrain. Another version states dirt borrowed from a ditch and placed on the roadbed gave birth to the term bar ditch.
 
"It was called a barrow ditch and was shortened to bar ditch."
So they had a bar tender that toted booze around in a wheelbarrow that fell in the ditch???
 

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