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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun barb has 4 senses
- barb(n = noun.communication) dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam - an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; "his parting shot was `drop dead'"; "she threw shafts of sarcasm"; "she takes a dig at me every chance she gets" is a kind of comment, input, remark
- barb(n = noun.artifact) - the pointed part of barbed wire; is a part of barbed wire, barbwire
- barb(n = noun.artifact) - a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove; is a part of arrowhead, hook, lance, shaft, spear
- barb(n = noun.animal) - one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather; is a part of vane, web
has particulars: cheap shot
is a kind of point
Derived form verb barb1
has particulars: fluke
is a kind of point
is a kind of fibril, filament, strand
Verb barb has 1 sense
- barb(v = verb.contact) - provide with barbs; "barbed wire" is one way to alter, change, modify
Derived form noun barb2
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
- Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it. [1913 Webster]"The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth." [1913 Webster]
- A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners. [1913 Webster]
- Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. [1913 Webster]
- The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else. Ascham. [1913 Webster]
- A bit for a horse. Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather. [1913 Webster]
- A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called
whiting . [1913 Webster] - A hair or bristle ending in a double hook. [1913 Webster]
barb, v. t.
- To shave or dress the beard of. [1913 Webster]
- To clip; to mow. Marston. [1913 Webster]
- To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc. [1913 Webster]"But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire." [1913 Webster]
barb, n. [F. barbe, fr. Barbarie.].
- The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors. [1913 Webster]
- A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary. [1913 Webster]
barb, n. [Corrupted fr. bard.].
Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n. , 1. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
barb, n. & v.
--n.
1 a secondary backward-facing projection from an arrow, fish-hook, etc., angled to make extraction difficult.
2 a deliberately hurtful remark.
3 a beardlike filament at the mouth of some fish, e.g. barbel and catfish.
4 any one of the fine hairlike filaments growing from the shaft of a feather, forming the vane.
--v.tr.
1 provide (an arrow, a fish-hook, etc.) with a barb or barbs.
2 (as barbed adj.) (of a remark etc.) deliberately hurtful.
--n.
1 a secondary backward-facing projection from an arrow, fish-hook, etc., angled to make extraction difficult.
2 a deliberately hurtful remark.
3 a beardlike filament at the mouth of some fish, e.g. barbel and catfish.
4 any one of the fine hairlike filaments growing from the shaft of a feather, forming the vane.
--v.tr.
1 provide (an arrow, a fish-hook, etc.) with a barb or barbs.
2 (as barbed adj.) (of a remark etc.) deliberately hurtful.
Idiom
barbed wire wire bearing sharp pointed spikes close together and used in fencing, or in warfare as an obstruction.
Etymology
ME f. OF barbe f. L barba beard
THESAURUS
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Sharpness
N sharpness, acuity, acumination, spinosity, point, spike, spine, spicule, spiculum, needle, hypodermic needle, tack, nail, pin, prick, prickle, spur, rowel, barb, spit, cusp, horn, antler, snag, tag thorn, bristle, Adam's needle, bear grass, tine, yucca, nib, tooth, tusk, spoke, cog, ratchet, crag, crest, arete, cone peak, sugar loaf, pike, aiguille, spire, pyramid, steeple, beard, chevaux de frise, porcupine, hedgehog, brier, bramble, thistle, comb, awn, beggar's lice, bur, burr, catchweed, cleavers, clivers, goose, grass, hairif, hariff, flax comb, hackle, hatchel, heckle, wedge, knife edge, cutting edge, blade, edge tool, cutlery, knife, penknife, whittle, razor, razor blade, safety razor, straight razor, electric razor, scalpel, bistoury, lancet, plowshare, coulter, colter, hatchet, ax, pickax, mattock, pick, adze, gill, billhook, cleaver, cutter, scythe, sickle, scissors, shears, pruning shears, cutters, wire cutters, nail clipper, paper cutter, sword, bodkin, belduque, bowie knife, paring knife, bushwhacker, drawing knife, drawing shave, microtome, chisel, screwdriver blade, flint blade, guillotine, sharpener, hone, strop, grindstone, whetstone, novaculite, steel, emery, sharp, keen, acute, acicular, aciform, aculeated, acuminated, pointed, tapering, conical, pyramidal, mucronate, mucronated, spindle shaped, needle shaped, spiked, spiky, ensiform, peaked, salient, cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated, cornute, cornuted, cornicultate, prickly, spiny, spinous, spicular, thorny, bristling, muricated, pectinated, studded, thistly, briary, craggy, snaggy, digitated, two-edged, fusiform, dentiform, denticulated, toothed, odontoid, starlike, stellated, stelliform, sagittate, sagittiform, arrowheaded, arrowy, barbed, spurred, acinaciform, apiculate, apiculated, aristate, awned, awny, bearded, calamiform, cone-shaped, coniform, crestate, echinate, gladiate, lanceolate, lanciform, awl, awl-shaped, lance-shaped, awl- shaped, scimitar-shaped, sword-shaped, setarious, spinuliferous, subulate, tetrahedral, xiphoid, cutting, sharp edged, knife edged, sharp as a razor, keen as a razor, sharp as a needle, sharp as a tack, sharpened, set.VB be sharp, taper to a point, bristle with, render sharp, sharpen, point, aculeate, whet, barb, spiculate, set, strop, grind, chip (flint), cut.