bar pad

noun3

1. •
   A cushioned tube that fits over the handlebar.

   • Installation of the mount, locating tower and stabilizer is a simple bolt-on affair, with ony minor surgery to the provided bar pad required to make room for the damper's low-speed adjustment knob. — 2005
2. •
   Synonym of barbell pad.

   • Set the bar pad in the center of the bar. If you don't have a bar pad, it's easy enough to wrap a towel around the bar as well. — 2011
3. •
   A rubber pad on a leather plate, which fits across the bottom of a horseshoe to protect the frog of the horse's hoof.

   • For long-standing "corns," for cases of chronic laminitis, and for horses that markedly "go on their heels" the bar-pad is without doubt the most efficient arrangement yet invented. — 1898