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Definition of Barbed
1. Adjective. Capable of wounding. "Pungent satire"
2. Adjective. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.. "Setaceous whiskers"
Similar to: Armed
Derivative terms: Barbel, Briar, Bristle, Bristliness, Burr, Prickle, Prickliness, Seta, Spininess, Thorn, Thorniness
Definition of Barbed
1. a. Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded (which is the proper form.)
2. a. Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.
Definition of Barbed
1. Adjective. Having barbs ¹
2. Adjective. (heraldry) Bearded (also applied to roses). ¹
3. Verb. (past of barb) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Barbed
1. barb [v] - See also: barb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbed
Literary usage of Barbed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"Finally, barbed wire composed of two wires twisted together, ... The introduction
of barbed wire met with some opposition in America on supposed ..."
2. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa ( Gray, Merritt Lyndon Fernald, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson (1908)
"90. Achenes flattened parallel to the chaff. Pappus-awns barbed ......... M.
B4d*ne. ... Pappus-awns not barbed ........ 54. ..."
3. Raemaekers' Cartoons: With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers by Louis Raemaekers (1916)
"The world cannot blame Germany for the introduction of barbed wire as an ...
But this in the cartoon is normal barbed wire, with its normal burden. ..."
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