barbed
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Adjective
Having a barb or barbs,
/bärbd/,
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Having a barb or barbs,
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Having a barb or barbs
- - barbed arrows
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(of a remark or joke) Deliberately hurtful
- - a fair degree of barbed wit
Web Definitions:
- capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
- 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"
- Barbing is a municipality in the district of Regensburg in Bavaria in Germany.
- Having barbs; Bearded (also applied to roses)
- Bearded. Usually specifically of the arrow; also, of the five leaflets in the compound leaf of some roses.
- bristles and hairs that are hooked backwards or downwards
- Having sharp, normally downward- or backward-pointing projections. Said of an awn, bristle, or other structure.
- Used to refer to points of arrows and spears and the sepals of a rose.
- A heraldic term used when describing the leaves of a rose or the metal point of an arrow or of a spear, particularly when these are of a different tincture - but see note below and ‘shafted’ (also ‘garnished’, ‘hafted’, ‘hilted’, ‘rogacina’ and ‘tincture’). ...
- A term variously applied. Firstly: to the points that stand back in the head of an arrow or fishing-hook, etc. Secondly: to a Cross when its extremities are like the barbed irons used for striking fish. Thirdly: to the five leases of the Heraldic-Rose; which always appear on its outside. ...
- (of awns or bristles) With short, sharp, hairlike processes.
- Furnished with barbs or hooked hairs.
- with projecting points or bristles.
- Furnished with rigid points or short bristles, usually reflexed like the barb of a fish hook.