Barbs is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BARBS in dictionary:

VERB:
• BARB, to pierce with a sharp point
NOUN:
• a sharp projection near the end of an arrow, fish hook, or similar object, which is angled away from the main point so as to make extraction difficult.
• a cluster of spikes on barbed wire.
• a deliberately hurtful remark
• a beard-like filament at the mouth of some fish, such as barbel and catfish.
• each of the fine hair-like filaments growing from the shaft of a feather, forming the vane.
• a freshwater fish with barbels around the mouth, popular in aquaria.
• a small horse of a hardy breed originally from North Africa.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to furnish with a barb (a sharp projection)

Words related to BARBS

barb8 barbed11 barbing12

Words that contain BARBS

rhubarbs15 phenobarbs19

How to use BARBS in a sentence

• Speckled or mottled Barbs are esteemed the most common of all pigeons.
• But this hard fare keeps down the fiery spirit of these stallion barbs, otherwise they would be unmanageable.
• It was rough and tough, like gutta-percha, tipped with a fine spike, and armed on each side, for the last inch of its length, with a row of sharp barbs pointing backwards.
• If the palisades had not been sloped obliquely, like the barbs of a feather, the line would have been covered by the sand to such an extent as to stop the running of the trains.
• But Adam had a deftness with his barbs that his opponent lacked.
• Coil after coil of this barbed wire was wound about Locke as he struggled, but ever more feebly, for with each coil now the barbs began to cut cruelly into his flesh.
• But the sharp barbs of the wire cut into his flesh, a torture to test the fortitude of a stoic.
• Gone now was his flinching and shrinking as the sharp barbs lacerated his tender flesh.
• He is always a joy to her, this absurd young man, who, in spite of barbs and shafts, follows at her chariot wheels with a determination worthy of a better cause.
• It came out, but the barbs of the arrow tore the flesh badly.
• Then like a flash of lightning, he casts the harpoon, and if his aim is good, as it usually is, a seal is fast on the barbs of the harpoon.
• It is composed of a piece of bone, cut into two barbs, in which is fixed the oval blade of a large muscle-shell, in which is the point of the instrument.
• The arrows were pointed either with bone or stone, but very few of them had barbs, and some had a round blunt point.
• Any hasty motion would have torn her face on the barbs.
• Sometimes it was provided with iron barbs, by which it clung to buildings.
• What a contrast between these solid looking men on their magnificent weight-carrying horses and our wiry little Allies on their barbs and Arabs.
• I saw a man, outlined in black against the glow of a star-shell, struggling madly as he endeavoured to loose his clothing from the barbs on which it caught.
• Cattle frequently pulled loosened posts from the earth by kneeling under the wire and working through, oblivious to the barbs.
• From the muzzles of the guns darted small barbs that carried with them a strong shock of electricity, from storage batteries in the shoulder pieces of the weapons.
• The very uncommon figure of this point may perhaps be best conceived by comparing it to a spear with several barbs.
• WHO? My friend must be a bird, Because it flies! Mortal my friend must be, Because it dies! Barbs has it, like a bee.
• Why, Barbs, your ambition is a direct lineal descendant of mine.
• About my head a shower of barbs and bullets fell, but I heeded them not.
• In the mountains, heads with two or more barbs are set into the handles, and are held in place by means of wooden wedges and by metal rings which surround the ends of the shafts.
• But the Indians had other uses for metal, and they had taken the mill apart and used the iron for the purpose of making barbs for their arrows.
• Meanwhile, in order that the newspapers might be well supplied with barbs for their shafts, he published an entire number of his magazine written by the daughters of famous men.

Similar words containing BARB without suffix s

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