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Barb

noun

An aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect. Synonyms: dig, gibe, jibe, shaft, shot, slam. "She threw shafts of sarcasm" , "She takes a dig at me every chance she gets"

The pointed part of barbed wire.

A subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove.

One of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather.

verb

(past & past part. barbed; pres. part. barbing)

Provide with barbs.

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"Barb" Quotes from Famous Books

... few wayfarers, and those we encounter are full of suspicion. Now and again we pass some country kaid or khalifa out on business. As many as a dozen well-armed slaves and retainers may follow him, and, as a rule, he rides a well-fed Barb with a fine crimson saddle and many saddle cloths. Over his white djellaba is a blue selham that came probably from Manchester; his stirrups are silver or plated. He travels unarmed and seldom uses spurs—a packing needle serves as an effective substitute. When he has spurs they are simply spear-heads—sharp ...

— Morocco • S.L. Bensusan

... woman, came dashing down the slope after them. Once in the shelter of the rocks, Hawk-Eye turned and faced his pursuers. When they had almost reached his hiding-place he gave a fierce yell and threw his spear. It was a very well made spear with a bone barb on the end, and it struck the leader of the wild tribe in the thigh. With a shriek of pain he fell to the ground. Then he seized the spear and pulled it out ...

— The Cave Twins • Lucy Fitch Perkins

... Bangs earnestly. "You ought to know your own name!" he went on severely. "It's Smith—and you're a barb from the cornfield! You've come to Siwash to forget how to plow and to-morrow you're going to organize a Smith Club. Do you hear? Don't let me catch you forgetting ...

— At Good Old Siwash • George Fitch

... Antelope and the river Concho is the water-hole. The land immediately surrounding the water-hole is enclosed with a barb-wire fence. Within the enclosure is a ranch-house painted white, a scrub-cedar corral, a small stable, and a lean-to shading the water-hole from the desert sun. The place is altogether neat and habitable. It is rather a surprise to the chance wayfarer to ...

— Sundown Slim • Henry Hubert Knibbs

... Revised Stat. 386. The Code of Procedure appears to have changed the law in this respect, and to enable parties to make such bargains as they please with their attorneys. Code of Procedure, s. 258; Satterlee v. Frazer, 2 Sandf. S. C. Rep. 142; Benedict v. Stuart, 23 Barb. 420; Ogden v. Des Arts, 4 Duer (N. Y.), 275; Sedgwick v. Stanton, 4 Kernan, 289. In Kentucky there appears to be a statute, which provides that any one not a party, receiving as compensation for services in prosecuting or defending a suit the whole or part of the subject-matter in ...

— An Essay on Professional Ethics - Second Edition • George Sharswood

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