barbed

Modifies a noun

• wire: The latter also had two strands of barbed wire strung along the top.
• entanglement: On the highways hundreds of Germans met their end on the barbed wire entanglements.
• fence: Showing an African farmer tying lengths of wool to a barbed wire fence.
• hook: Three barbed metal hooks are tied together with wrapping of metal wire.
• fencing: I had to sneak around all the barbed wire fencing.
• wit: No aspect of modern life was safe from Mr Wheen's barbed wit.

Modifying Another Word

• often: Many catfish and some other species have sharp spines ( often barbed ) on their fins.
• only: Even the lizards had gone on holiday to escape the furnace heat, leaving only barbed wire bushes and a tap 500 yds away.
• not: For the same reason, the Gripple can be used to tension a length of plain wire, but not barbed wire or netting.