Barbed

Word BARBED
Character 6
Hyphenation barbed
Pronunciations /bɑː(ɹ)bd/

Definitions and meanings of "Barbed"

What do we mean by barbed?

Having barbs. adjective

Cutting; stinging. adjective

Shaved; trimmed; having the beard dressed.

Furnished with barbs, as an arrow, the point of a fish-hook, and the like: as, “arrows barbed with fire,”

“a barbed proboscis,”

In heraldry: Having barbs: said of the rose used as a bearing. The barbs are commonly colored green, and the blazon is a rose gules barbed proper.

Having gills or wattles, as a cock: as, a cock sable, barbed or (that is, a black cock having golden gills). Also called wattled.

Having the ends made with barbs like those of an arrow-head: said especially of a cross of this form. Also called bearded.

Same as barded.

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

Furnished with a barb or barbs. adjective

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

Having barbs adjective

Bearded (also applied to roses). adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of barb. verb

Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. adjective

Capable of wounding adjective

To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.

To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.

To cut (hair).

To shave or dress the beard of.

To clip; to mow.

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The word "barbed" in example sentences

Lee is essentially a satirist who redefines the term barbed wit; more traditional in his approach than say, Chris Morris, but no less appalled and disgusted at what has become of us. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One was a rough mangy mut that looked like it had been caught in barbed wire or a fight. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Wrestling legend Paul Heyman has slammed Rihanna for allegedly ripping off his idea of being wrapped up in barbed wire for the single cover for her current comeback single “Russian Roulette.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Or do we just have to invest in barbed wire and sit and wait for the anarchy to descend? on November 6, 2008 at 7: 59 am | Reply PC Disgruntled ❋ Inspector Gadget (2008)

They were delivered to tar paper barracks in barbed wire compounds patrolled by soldiers. ❋ Unknown (2004)

After the Wall was laid out in barbed wire in 1961, she and her husband were denied permission to go to the West to obtain the medicine that was keeping him alive. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Their arms consisted in short barbed swords of iron, heavy black bows, arrows tipped with flint, iron and copper, and stone-headed mallets. ❋ Howard, Robert E. (2005)

The idea was brought to a company who designed flags and the black and white silhouette of a prisoner encased in barbed wire with a looming guard tower was born. ❋ Unknown (1972)

It was made of mangrove logs nailed and tied and wrapped in barbed wire. ❋ Unknown (1963)

The ‘democratic vistas’ have ended in barbed wire. ❋ Unknown (1940)

The entertainment community is abuzz about Rihanna’s new album cover, where the once-but-never-again-almost - Mrs. - Chris-Brown is wrapped up in barbed wire, with her right arm in the air, and blood dripping on the cover design. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Fonkoze’s Port-au-Prince branch office, resplendent in barbed wire:) ❋ Kate Fleurange (2008)

The two issues — one real and deeply troubling, the other false yet familiar and compelling — define, with what I would call barbed irony, our national juncture, which is headed toward a profound resolution on Election Day, less than three weeks hence. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The two issues -- one real and deeply troubling, the other false yet familiar and compelling -- define, with what I would call barbed irony, our national juncture, which is headed toward a profound resolution on Election Day, less than three weeks hence. ❋ Unknown (2008)

One of them spelled his nickname in barbed gothic letters, “ODIN.” ❋ Gregory Spencer (2004)

Again the spears would have been amongst us; but I, not relishing even the idea of barbed spears being stuck through my body, determined not to permit either my own or any of my party's lives to be lost for the sake of not discharging my firearms. ❋ Ernest Giles (1866)

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