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“barbs”
1. One of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather.
2. A subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove.
3. The pointed part of barbed wire.
4. From Old French barbe, "beard, beardlike appendage"; from Latin barba, "beard", cognate with Old English beard.
2. A subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove.
3. The pointed part of barbed wire.
4. From Old French barbe, "beard, beardlike appendage"; from Latin barba, "beard", cognate with Old English beard.
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barba-, barb-, barbat-
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