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bobwire

n. barbed wire

Usage examples of "bobwire".

As he turned off the trail running past it, Longarm saw they had nobody posted at the main gate, which was more like a gap in the three-strand bobwire around the quarter section or so.

Someone had shot it in the head and buried it under tumbleweed to make it look like a big old clump of brush against a bobwire fence.

He rode out to where he'd left another mount tied up, likely to that same bobwire fence.

When I run into the cabin Pappy had her on the floor as he went after her with that whip he'd made of bobwire.

The multiple lacerations from the bobwire she'd been lashed with had stopped bleeding and were starting to scab over.

Was your old man armed with anything more serious than bobwire when last you noticed?

The plane had been at the small landing strip outside of Braintree, but to get beyond the Arnette town limits they had had to pass a roadblock on US 93, and men had been stringing bobwire .

Came from a scratch she got crawling under a rusty bobwire fence, apparently.

The country hereabouts was getting crowded for free-ranging beef if they'd spent money on this much bobwire.

For as long as they don't string bobwire more than a half mile southwest of the road, it helps our own drift wire hold Rocking R stock back from that dangerous river and spooky road travel.

Ilsa had said she peddled bobwire and other hardware from her house, But why would, say, a retail merchant or homesteader tether catty-corner across the way instead of smack out front?

As a raggedy jet-black figure came out on deck to flap crow-like sleeves at them and scream like a rabbit caught in a bobwire fence, the skipper dryly went on.

Some of the boys who helped them haul that windmill gear and bobwire rolls ashore say the land the fool breed has claimed isn't much less rocky as you get back from the river.

A harried lark was cussing about it from a bobwire fence and the shadows were getting longer when he overtook a raggedy kid driving a dairy cow on foot, likely homeward bound, along the far side of that fence with soft words and a big stick.

He'd meant what he'd said to that kid back there about fancy dairy breeds and one more strand of new Glidden Brand bobwire than most nesters strung.