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Definition of Barbing
1. barb [v] - See also: barb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbing
Literary usage of Barbing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"barbing. A cant term for clipping of gold ; quasi, shaving it. Ay, and perhaps
thy neck Within a noos'e, for bundling ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1895)
"The barbing process may be performed in one of two ways, (i) By a knife with a
long handle, acting as a powerful lever and held in the workman's hands. ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1910)
"The barbing and twisting together of the two longitudinal strand wires is done
by automatic machinery, A brief description of the manufacture of 2 and 4 ..."
4. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"Making the coffin cost 2s.; the tailors for making a cover to the litter [?
a pall to the bier] and barbing the horses with black 10s.; the ringers of four ..."
5. Remains, Historical and Literary, Connected with the Palatine Counties of by Chetham Society (1857)
"Making the coffin cost 2s.; the tailors for making a cover to the litter [?
a pall to the bier] and barbing the horses with black 10s.; the ringers of four ..."
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