ETYM See Barb.
1. Capable of wounding; SYN. biting, nipping, pungent.
2. Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; SYN. barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny.

Množina: barbed statements

Množina: barbed wires

Strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage.
Cheap fencing material made of strands of galvanized wire (see galvanizing), twisted together with sharp barbs at close intervals. In 1873 an American, Joseph Glidden, devised a machine to mass-produce barbed wire. Its use on the open grasslands of 19th-century America led to range warfare between farmers and cattle ranchers; the latter used to drive their herds cross-country. barbed-wire