barbed

[barbed]

Something that's barbed is sharp or spiky. Barbed wire has very sharp points at intervals along its length, to keep animals or people in (or out of) a yard.

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

Adjective S.
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

Adjective S.
capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"


imp. & p. p.
of Barb

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

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


Barbed

Barbed , a. [See 4th Bare.] Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.) Sir W. Raleigh.

Barbed

Barbed, a. 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.

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

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

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Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

Misspelled Form

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