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Sharrow

/ˈʃæroʊ/

A shared lane marking on a lane of a paved road's surface indicating that bicyclists may use any portion of the full width of the lane.

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A shared lane marking on a lane of a paved road's surface indicating that bicyclists may use any portion of the full width of the lane.

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shared lane markingnoun	Synonym of sharrow.
shieldnoun	Anything that protects or defends; defense; shelter; protection.
chevronnoun	A V-shaped pattern; used in architecture, and as an insignia of military or police rank, on the sleeve.
yield signnoun	(Canada, US, Belize, Ireland, South Africa, South Korea, Taiwan, Liberia, Namibia) a road sign which instructs road users to give right of way to other traffic
hand signalnoun	A standardized hand gesture used by cyclists and some motorists to indicate intentions (such as turning or braking) to other traffic.
symbolnoun	A character or glyph representing an idea, concept or object.
squarenoun	(geometry) A polygon with four straight sides of equal length and four right angles; an equilateral rectangle; a regular quadrilateral.
shilling marknoun	(UK, typography, historical) Synonym of slash ⟨/⟩ in its use to mark the amount of shillings in a sum or (obsolete) in all its uses.
shinglenoun	A small, thin piece of building material, often with one end thicker than the other, for laying in overlapping rows as a covering for the roof or sides of a building.
waymarkernoun	waymark
diagonal marknoun	(typography) Synonym of slash as the forward slash ⟨/⟩ and sometimes also its proscribed sense inclusive of the backslash ⟨\⟩.
arrowletnoun	A small arrow.
slashnoun	A slashing action or motion:
shilling signnoun	The symbol '/' used in the United Kingdom before decimalisation to separate shillings from pence when writing out sums of money. (Examples: 7/6 = seven shillings and six pence; 7/- = seven shillings exactly.)
broken arrownoun	(technical) A callout marker that consists of a dashed line with an arrowhead.
tracenoun	An act of tracing.
brevenoun	(orthography, printing) A semicircular diacritical mark (˘) placed above a vowel, commonly used to mark its quantity as short.
hash marknoun	The hash or pound sign (#).
arrownoun	A projectile consisting of a shaft, a point and a tail with stabilizing fins that is shot from a bow.
shrthndnoun	Abbreviation of shorthand. [A rough and rapid method of writing by substituting symbols for letters, words, etc.]