2. Verb. (third-person singular of barb) ¹
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Definition of Barbs
1. barb [v] - See also: barb
Lexicographical Neighbors of Barbs
Literary usage of Barbs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Manual by American Railway Engineering Association (1916)
"-barbs 5 inches apart. Thickset or Hog—barbs 3 inches apart. Regular or Cattle
ELLWOOD JUNIOR, ... Half-round barbs, short and sharp. -barbs 5 inches apart. ..."
2. Manual of the American Railway Engineering Association by American Railway Engineering Association (1921)
"Flat barbs, short and sharp. Regular or Cattle—barbs 5 Inches apart. ... Regular or
Cattle—barbs 6 Inches apart. Thickset or Hog—barbs 3 Inches apart. ..."
3. A Dictionary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Obsolete Phrases, Proverbs by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (1847)
"barbs. (1) Military trappings. ... barbs under calves tongues" are mentioned in
Markham's Countrey Farme, p. 63. ..."
4. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"... which follows at first their progression, being elongated with them, and
finally dries up as the barbs shoot forth, and becomes divided into very fine ..."
5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1870)
"When all the grooves (wherein are formed the barbs, and the portion of the shaft
which carries them) are filled by the horny matter, and the barbed part of ..."
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