beam, crossbeam / bar (long, narrow drawn or printed rectangle, cuboid or cylinder, especially as used in a bar code or a bar chart; informal unit of measure of signal strength for a wireless device such as a cell phone) / beam (horizontal bar which connects the stems of two or more notes to group them and to indicate metric value) / fess

(simile) to lie through one's teeth

steelyard balance

genitive singular of Balken

plural of Balkenspiralgalaxie

(astronomy) barred spiral galaxy

plural of Balkenwaage

bar chart, usually with horizontal bars