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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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Etymology of 'Barbed'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... Name! Red murder reigns; All hell is loose; On gold autumnal air Walk grinning devils, barbed and hoofed; While high on hills of hate, Black-blossomed, crimson-sky'd, ...

— Darkwater - Voices From Within The Veil • W. E. B. Du Bois

... immensely strong in itself, with a perfect glacis and field of fire. Every invention of modern defensive war helped to make it stronger. In front of it was the usual system of barbed wire, stretched on iron supports, over a width of fifty yards. Behind the wire was the system of the First Enemy Main Line, from which many communication-trenches ran to the central fortress of ...

— Attack - An Infantry Subaltern's Impression of July 1st, 1916 • Edward G. D. Liveing

... great maw of silence digests it. But what science can know the destiny of the pins and pins and pins, and what is the oblivion which swallows that great army of street-walking women whose cheeks are too pink and who dwell outside the barbed-wire fence ...

— Every Soul Hath Its Song • Fannie Hurst

... through the darkness against her tall side. 'Fun!' he repeated rather grimly. 'You won't think it so funny when you find yourself crawling up a cliff with quick-firers barking at you from behind every rock, and a strand of barbed wire to cut each five yards, to say nothing of snipers socking lead at you the whole time. No, Dave, I'll lay, whatever you think, ...

— On Land And Sea At The Dardanelles • Thomas Charles Bridges

... possibilities with such marvelous accuracy, such ethereal fineness of touch, that even mainsprings and hairsprings are looked back upon as coarse, crude, and cheap. When his work is done, he shows you a few of the minutely barbed instruments used by dentists to draw out the finest branches of the dental nerves. While a pound of gold, roughly speaking, is worth about two hundred and fifty dollars, a pound of these slender, barbed filaments of steel, if a pound could be ...

— Pushing to the Front • Orison Swett Marden

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