Barb is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for BARB in dictionary:

VERB:
• to pierce with a sharp point
• To shave or dress the beard of.
• To clip; to mow.
• To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
• provide with barbs
• provide with a barb or barbs
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.
• cutting remark
• Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
• A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
• Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
• The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
• A bit for a horse.
• One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.
• A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.
• A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
• The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
• A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
• Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.
• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
• 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
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to furnish with a barb (a sharp projection)

Words related to BARB

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Words that contain BARB

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How to use BARB in a sentence

• But though he was so plainly dressed himself, the horse he rode was a noble barb, and its trappings were rich with silk and silver bells.
• Each cell contains a fine thread with a poisoned barb at the tip, The thread is packed away in the cell, coiled up like the spring of a watch.
• The most difficult lesson a barb learns, is to halt suddenly in mid career of a full gallop.
• As it went under the wire the can caught on a barb of the lower strand.
• Julian thought the wound a slight one, and seizing the double-edged barb to withdraw it, cut his fingers.
• She caught at the wire as she went down, and missing, raked her wrist across a barb until she tore a bleeding gash.
• Moreover, the honest lustre of the silver was only a bait on the barb of secret guile.
• The arrow, indeed, had struck Venetia with a double barb.
• Robert stood by, silent, but his eyes fell on fresh marks with a knife, near the barb on each weapon, and the great pulse in his throat leaped.
• I can recall these scenes, but I cannot recall a single word he said that involved a personal wound or left a barb.
• People may attempt to do it, but their shafts have no barb.
• It was hate, it was wounded pride crying out for vengeance, it was the barb of scorn urging her to give back in kind.
• Every new twist of this damnable mess has been a barb tearing the old wound open afresh.
• 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.
• There was balm in the barb for all the wound it made.
• A gaff is a large hook without a barb fastened into a short pole.
• She was all smiles and lightness, and her tongue had never a barb.
• The major mounted his barb, and soon reached the pavilion.
• But if the Comic idea prevailed with us, and we had an Aristophanes to barb and wing it, we should be breathing air of Athens.
• Tall old chief and slim white horse of purest barb breed seemed almost one creature.
• Silence continued, broken only by the dull drone of one engine still running on board the ship, by the creaking of saddle-leather, the whinny of a barb.
• The barb is allied to the carrier, but, instead of a very long beak, has a very short and very broad one.
• The spear entered a little above the collar bone, and had been discharged with such force, that the barb of it came through on the other side.
• The lovely Countess was mounted on a fiery Spanish barb, given to her by De Gondomar.
• Mounted upon a fiery Spanish barb, presented to him by the Conde de Gondomar, he is fully equipped for the jousts.
• So thick are the hooks and snares that merely to swim along, intent on his own business, is likely to result sooner or later in his being impaled on some cruel barb.
• This time he had received a genuine wound, with poison upon the barb of the arrow that had pierced him.
• Upon second thought, he strung barb wire on the top of the stockade and set steel-traps cunningly outside.
• It was smooth and black and white, and at one end it was very sharp with a tiny little barb.

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