barbed

• IPA^(key): /bɑː(ɹ)bd/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)bd

barbed (comparative more barbed, superlative most barbed)

1. Having barbs
2. (heraldry) Bearded (also applied to roses, referring to the leaves between the petals).
3. (of language, etc.) Deliberately hurtful; biting; caustic.
4. (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.
   • 1638, Walter Raleigh, The Prerogative of Parliaments

     Your Lordship may remember in your reading, that there were many Earles could bring into the field a thousand Barbed horses

barbed

1. simple past tense and past participle of barb

• barbed wire

• The Manual of Heraldry, Fifth Edition, by Anonymous, London, 1862, online at

• dabber, debarb