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adjective

Barbed adj. Accoutered with defensive armor; said of a horse. See Barded (which is the proper form.)

Barbed adj. Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.

Barbed wire, a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.

verb

Barb v. t. (past & past part. barbed; pres. part. barbing)

To shave or dress the beard of. (Obs.)

To clip; to mow. (Obs.)

To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. "But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire."

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Barbed" Quotes from Famous Books

... Pewley Hill, a modern villa; opposite it, which would infuriate the old reformer if he could see it, War Office Ground, marked off with barbed wire and minatory notice-boards. A hundred years hence, perhaps the fort on Pewley Hill will be exhibited as one of the curiosities of ...

— Highways and Byways in Surrey • Eric Parker

... If rests the traveller his weary head, Grim MANCINELLA haunts the mossy bed, Brews her black hebenon, and, stealing near, 190 Pours the curst venom in his tortured ear.— Wide o'er the mad'ning throng URTICA flings Her barbed shafts, ...

— The Botanic Garden. Part II. - Containing The Loves of the Plants. A Poem. - With Philosophical Notes. • Erasmus Darwin

... among the company? Would it not be well to summon them, that they may hear the father's instructions, and join in the song which we shall all sing as we draw near to Shiloh?" Cruel words! and they do their work. Like barbed arrows, they stick fast in the sore heart of this injured one. Her head sinks, but she utters no reply. She only draws nearer to her husband, and walks ...

— Mrs Whittelsey's Magazine for Mothers and Daughters - Volume 3 • Various

... "The barbed formation of the point explains how, under the stroking with the finger, it was forced through the dense tarsal cartilage and against the ...

— Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine • George M. Gould

... of new-scraped water ditches began to appear, and the first wire fences. Next, they were passing cabins and occasional fields, the outposts of habitation. The free road became wholly imprisoned, running between unbroken stretches of barbed wire. Far off to the eastward a flowing column of dust marked the approaching stage, bringing the bishop, probably, for whose visit here they had timed their wedding. The day still brimmed with heat ...

— The Virginian - A Horseman Of The Plains • Owen Wister

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