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Rarebarb
The correct spelling is barb.
How to pronounce barb
/bɑː(ɹ)b/
nounIPA: /bɑː(ɹ)b/
Say it like: Bar-b
The correct spelling is barb. 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…
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Meanings
noun
- 1.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.
- 2.A hurtful or disparaging remark.
- 3.A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
- 4.Armor for a horse, corrupted from bard.
- 5.A horse.
verb
- 1.To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
- 2.To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.
- 3.To cut (hair).
- 4.To shave or dress the beard of.
- 5.To clip; to mow.
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