bars

“If I cannot harness you,” said the Witch to the Lion, speaking through the bars of the gate, “I can starve you.

Through the blinds and the windows and bars;

My evidence showed that the door had been fastened upon the inner side, and the windows were blocked by old-fashioned shutters with broad iron bars, which were secured every night.

They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera--the Panther--and no man’s plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away.