Barbed

//bɑː(ɹ)bd//

"Barbed" in a Sentence (17 examples)

The building is surrounded by a barbed wire fence.

Tom crawled under the barbed wire.

What do you get if you cross a hedgehog and a snake? Five feet of barbed wire.

My coat got caught on a barb on the barbed wire.

If you try to speak figuratively to the J-14 robots, they will sting you with a small barbed projectile, but the newer J-37 will randomly kill uncooperative humans.

The tall, curved fence was adorned with barbed wire, for extra measure.

Bees have a barbed stinger that can be stuck in the victim of a sting, tearing the stinger loose from the bee's abdomen, which results in its death.

The field is surrounded by barbed wire.

To get there, we had to jump over a massive barbed wire fence.

The body was covered in barbed wires.

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COCKATRICE an imaginary monster resembling a wivern with the head of a cock, the tongue barbed. It occurs displayed, but is ordinarily borne with the wings endorsed.

Crest : A demi-cockatrice or, crested gules, stricken through the back of the neck with an arrow sable, barbed and flighted argent. Sable, two bars humettée or between a cock in fesse and a swan in chief and in base argent.

The cross barbed has its limbs terminated by arrow-heads; it is sometimes emblazoned cramponée and tournée, but Edmondson gives the last name to a totally different cross, one not unlike the cross fourchée.

Ex. A Cock barbed and crested, (that is, wattled and combed, which signifies the Comb and Gills of a Cock, when born of a different Tincture from the Body)

About the year 1446, he carried, as by our old books of blazons, quarterly, first and fourth Marr; second and third Lyle, as above blazoned; for crest, a cock or, crested and barbed gules: motto, An I may; supported by two[…]

PLANT (?Plantagenet). Arg. a rose gu. seeded or barbed vert.

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

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