Unbarbed

When he reached the wire, however, he saw at once that its strength was an illusion, for the whole concertina was held in place by an unbarbed loop hung loosely over the twisted end of a broken railing: surmounting the cunning defences of Standingham Castle wasn't going to be such a problem after all, thank heavens! ❋ Price, Anthony (1976)

This is attached to a long line and fitted into a copper cap on the end of a long pole, the whole constituting an unbarbed spear. ❋ Various (N/A)

Today, O Krishna, unbarbed arrows, impelled by my arms and sped from the gandiva, mangling Karna, will take him to Yama. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

Having spread his excellent bed of barbed and unbarbed arrows, that hero lieth on it like the divine Skanda on a clump of heath. ❋ Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli (N/A)

Hence the epiblast can only by continual growth accommodate what it must embrace, and the process of tucking-in is accompanied by one of growth of the epiblast, as shown by the unbarbed arrow, over the yolk. ❋ Unknown (1906)

The Duke provided himself with bows from Prussia and from Caffa in Georgia, [1981] and with arrows barbed and unbarbed. ❋ Anatole France (1884)

There were whispered rumors that went even farther than these -- rumors which I dare not even set down here, for the busy tongues that dealt so mercilessly with the name and fame of Eliza Floyd were not unbarbed by malice. ❋ Mary Elizabeth (1863)

Flameless -- motionless -- hurtless -- the fine arrow; unplumed, unpoisoned, and unbarbed; aimless -- shall we say also, readers young and old, travelling or abiding? ❋ John Ruskin (1859)

Each carried an iron-headed axe in a girdle, a bow about six feet in length strung with twisted bark, and a few ill-made arrows with peacocks 'feathers at one end and an iron unbarbed head tapering to a point at the other. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The labouring hunter tufts the thick unbarbed grounds ❋ George Gilfillan (1845)

At Katanda, a series of elements in the MSA assemblages, such as barbed and unbarbed bone points has been microliths, that would indicate LSA recovered from secure stratigraphic context admixture. ❋ Guestc2a28b (2009)

He then worked the hook through to expose the barb and then cut that potion of the hook and backed the unbarbed portion out. ❋ Unknown (2008)