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barb (bärb) noun

1. A sharp point projecting in reverse direction to the main point of a weapon or tool, as on an arrow or fishhook.

2. A cutting remark.

3. Zoology. One of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather.

4. Botany. A short, sharply hooked bristle or hairlike projection.

5. See barbel1.

6. Any of various Old World freshwater fishes of the genus Barbus or Puntius and related genera.

7. A linen covering for a woman's head, throat, and chin worn in medieval times.

verb, transitive

barbed, barbing, barbs

To provide or furnish with a barb.

[Middle English barbe, from Old French, beard, from Latin barba.]