Barbed
[bɑːbd] or [bɑrbd]
Definition
(adj.) 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' .
(adj.) capable of wounding; 'a barbed compliment'; 'a biting aphorism'; 'pungent satire' .
Checker: Pamela--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Bearded.[2]. Clad in armor.
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Examples
- The remembrance of last night added a barbed point to it. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- It was clear last night that this barbed the point of Provis's animosity. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- It was a barbed arrow-head in my breast; it tore me when I tried to extract it; it sickened me when remembrance thrust it farther in. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The Knight had scarcely finished a hasty meal, ere his menial announced to him that five men, each leading a barbed steed, desired to speak with him. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- The French patent to Grassin & Baledans, in 1861, is the first disclosure of a barbed wire fence. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In _wire-working_ great advances have been made in machines for making _barbed wire fences_. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The barbed shaft of love had penetrated his dull hide. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Yet how cease to repine, since there was no hand near to extract the barbed spear that had entered my heart of hearts? Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- They try to fasten on the bull their _banderillas_--barbed darts ornamented with colored paper, and often having squibs or crackers attached. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Many of them are also barbed to hold the flesh. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- To each of these explosives is fastened a barbed needle which serves the purpose of attaching them to the bull by running the needle into the skin. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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