- a point or pointed part projecting backward from a main point, as of a fishhook or arrowhead.
- an obviously or openly unpleasant or cutting remark.
- a hooked or sharp bristle.
- one of the processes attached to the rachis of a feather.
- one of a breed of domestic pigeons, similar to the carriers or homers, having a short, broad bill.
- any of numerous, small, Old World cyprinid fishes of the genera Barbus and Puntius, often kept in aquariums.
- a small protuberance under the tongue in horses and cattle, especially when inflamed and swollen.
- a linen covering for the throat and breast, formerly worn by women mourners and now only by some nuns.
- a beard.
- to furnish with a barb or barbs.
- one of a breed of horses raised originally in Barbary.
- a subsidiary point facing in the opposite direction to the main point of a fish-hook, harpoon, arrow, etc, intended to make extraction difficult
- any of various pointed parts, as on barbed wire
- a cutting remark; gibe
- any of the numerous hairlike filaments that form the vane of a feather
- a beardlike growth in certain animals
- a hooked hair or projection on certain fruits
- any small cyprinid fish of the genus Barbus (or Puntius) and related genera, such as B. conchonius (rosy barb)
- any of the small fleshy protuberances beneath the tongue in horses and cattle
- a white linen cloth forming part of a headdress extending from the chin to the upper chest, originally worn by women in the Middle Ages, now worn by nuns of some orders
- a beard
- to provide with a barb or barbs
- a breed of horse of North African origin, similar to the Arab but less spirited
- a black kelpie
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