Traditional Chinese Meaning of barb

倒鉤

Other Traditional Chinese words related to 倒鉤

Definitions and Meaning of barb in English

Wordnet

barb (n)

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

Wordnet

barb (v)

provide with barbs

Webster

barb (n.)

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.

Webster

barb (v. t.)

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.

FAQs About the word barb

倒鉤

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