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Barb

noun

An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect. Synonyms: dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam. "She threw shafts of sarcasm" , "She takes a dig at me every chance she gets"

The pointed part of barbed wire.

A subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove.

One of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather.

verb

(past & past part. barbed; pres. part. barbing)

Provide with barbs.

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"Barb" Quotes from Famous Books

... indulgence of their sensual appetites. Such fugitives from civilised life, I have never seen otherwise occupied than with their bows and arrows. The bows are small, but made of good elastic wood; the arrows are formed of small reeds, the points furnished with a well-wrought piece of bone, and a double barb, which is steeped in a potent poison of a resiny appearance. This poison is distilled from the leaves of an indigenous tree. Many prefer these arrows to fire-arms, under the idea that they can kill more game by means of a weapon that makes no report. On their return ...

— The Ethnology of the British Colonies and Dependencies • Robert Gordon Latham

... ray of moonlight under a cabin, a window opened noiselessly, and zing! a bowstring twanged its sharp warning in the tense silence. With a yelp the wolf tore the arrow from his shoulder. The warm blood followed the barb, and he lapped it eagerly in his hunger. Then, as the danger swept over him, he gave the trail cry and darted away. Doors banged open here and there; dogs barked to crack their throats; seal guns roared out and sent their heavy echoes crashing like ...

— Northern Trails, Book I. • William J. Long

... maintain his action against third persons for enticing her away or harboring her. But this harboring, to be actionable, must be more than a mere permission to her to stay with such third person. (4 Barb. 225). ...

— History of Woman Suffrage, Volume I • Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, and Matilda Joslyn Gage

... the grass with his foot, and fixing it on his throwing-stick, in an instant darted it at the governor. The spear entered a little above the collar bone, and had been discharged with such force, that the barb of it came through on the other side. Several other spears were thrown, but happily no further mischief was effected. The spear was with difficulty broken by Lieutenant Waterhouse, and while the governor was leading down to the boat the people landed with the arms, but of four muskets ...

— An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1 • David Collins

... were a returned man," the sergeant said placatingly. A pointed barb of resentment had crept into the other's tone ...

— Burned Bridges • Bertrand W. Sinclair

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