1. (adj)barbed, biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious capable of wounding "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
2. (adj)barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny 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"
Definitions of 'barbed'
Webster 1913 Dictionary
1. (adj)barbed accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.)
2. (adj)barbed furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire
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