Definitions for Barb

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Barb barb

Spelling: [bahrb]

IPA: /bɑrb/

Barb is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 20 anagrams from letters in Barb (abbr).

Definitions for Barb

noun

1. a point or pointed part projecting backward from a main point, as of a fishhook or arrowhead.
2. an obviously or openly unpleasant or carping remark.
3. Botany, Zoology. a hooked or sharp bristle.
4. Ornithology. one of the processes attached to the rachis of a feather.
5. one of a breed of domestic pigeons, similar to the carriers or homers, having a short, broad bill.
6. any of numerous, small, Old World cyprinid fishes of the genera Barbus and Puntius, often kept in aquariums.
7. Usually, barbs. Veterinary Pathology. a small protuberance under the tongue in horses and cattle, especially when inflamed and swollen.
8. Also, barbe. a linen covering for the throat and breast, formerly worn by women mourners and now only by some nuns.
9. Obsolete. a beard.
10. one of a breed of horses raised originally in Barbary.
11. barbiturate.

verb (used with object)

1. to furnish with a barb or barbs.

Origin of Barb

1300-50; Middle English barbe Middle French ≪ Latin barba beard or beardlike projection

Examples for Barb

In trying to draw it out they broke the shaft, thus leaving the barb in the wound.

How gracefully their Colonel, the young Count of Eberstein, bounds on his barb!

Even an exchange on gun control enabled Obama to recycle a barb once used against John Kerry, who played Romney in debate prep.

My grandfather had a barb of thees kind—but she has gone dead, and so have my grandfather.

Bills are piling up in an Iowa court case, Heki v. Bachmann, filed by another former Bachmann staffer, barb Heki.

The delayed realization of her patience of misery rankled like a barb.

The "mastiff" epithet stuck like a barb in my boyish chivalry.

The Daily Pic: barb Choit shows us old images as they fade to black – or cyan.

Nora could arm and disarm within a sentence, could wield a barb and its curative salve within a phrase.

But every barb is delivered with a wink—and a chiseled, dashing smile.