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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
barbed
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
barbed wire (=wire with a lot of sharp points on it, used for making fences)
▪ The prison was surrounded by barbed wire.
barbed wire
▪ a high barbed wire fence
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
wire
▪ Given the ferocious imagination of his subconscious, it's hardly surprising that his celluloid output is laced with lethal barbed wire.
▪ On the other side of the double row of barbed wire a guard was standing still holding his rifle at the ready.
▪ She had driven slowly forward to the yellow demarcation line and the frightening folds of barbed wire.
▪ I closed my mouth and felt as though I had gargled with barbed wire.
▪ You may not, however, top your wall with broken glass or barbed wire without the consent of your local authority.
▪ He surrounded them with barbed wire.
▪ The wall was topped with rolls of barbed wire and jagged ends of glass stuck into the eight-foot concrete slabs.
▪ The courthouse itself was protected by barbed wire and ringed with police.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ She had a pair of batons with wickedly barbed ends.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Barbed

Barbed \Barbed\ (b[aum]rbd or b[aum]rb"[e^]d), a. [See 4th Barb.] Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded (which is the proper form.)
--Sir W. Raleigh.

Barbed

Barbed \Barbed\, a. Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.

Barbed wire, a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.

Barbed

Barb \Barb\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Barbed (b[aum]rbd); p. pr. & vb. n. Barbing.]

  1. To shave or dress the beard of. [Obs.]

  2. To clip; to mow. [Obs.]
    --Marston.

  3. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.

    But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire.
    --Milton.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
barbed
  1. 1 Having barbs 2 (context heraldry English) bearded (also applied to roses). 3 (context of a horse English) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded. v

  2. (en-past of: barb)

WordNet
barbed
  1. adj. capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" [syn: biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious]

  2. 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" [syn: barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]

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Usage examples of "barbed".

She caught a glimpse of the Roman aqueduct and the massive ramparts of the Crusader City, and then she was following the old coastal road past the Dan Caesarea Hotel with its 18-hole golf course secured behind a perimeter of high fence and concertina barbed wire.

A handful of bigger shapes moved on the ground, grinding through American barbed wire and into the U.

The first night was a great success, there was not a whisper of protest from the Boche, and we had cut through an almost continuous line, adequately protected by concertina barbed wire, and particularly strengthened at various points where posts had to be held during the next day.

I cruised the bad boogaloo streets until I spotted the car that tried to ram meparked behind a cinderblock dump circled by barbed wire.

I cruised the bad boogaloo streets until I spotted the car that tried to ram me-parked behind a cinderblock dump circled by barbed wire.

Kicking, the darsteed bugled its frustration and lashed its barbed tail from side to side.

They are fleshy shrubs, with rounded, woody stems, and numerous succulent branches, composed in most of the species of separate joints or parts, which are much compressed, often elliptic or suborbicular, dotted over in spiral lines with small, fleshy, caducous leaves, in the axils of which are placed the areoles or tufts of barbed or hooked spines of two forms.

The Dobe hesitated at the fence for an instant, but when Train had the top strand of barbed wire held down, he snapped his fingers and Gutter cleared the fence in a single smooth bound.

But the smell which hung over the battery, which stood between barracks and gun positions, between the computer and the shrapnel trenches, and scarcely moved its supporting leg, the smell which, as Harry and everyone else knew, was projected neither by rats nor by crows, which arose from no drain and hence from no errancy, this smell was wafted, regardless of whether the wind was working from Putzig or Dirschau, from the harbor-mouth bar or from the open sea, by a whitish mound blocked off by barbed wire and situated to the south of the battery.

The back grew round and hunched, while the arms became long gangling things that ended in barbed talons.

Vampaneze Lord stepped out from behind Gannen Harst and produced a barbed short sword.

A large, six-footed, black and white striped kirre lay on the carpet in the center of the room, slowly wagging its heavy, barbed tail back and forth.

Then I saw what it was: the remains of some ancient writing, the ogam letters blurred and worn till they showed like the fletching on a shaft, and a barbed head pointing westwards.

Barbed wire and obstructions at the mouth of the stream had been left in place until the proa was ready.

Armijo boarded up the shed door, caught and reimprisoned the goat, strung two barbed wire strands above the chicken wire, and released the goat again.