Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Twisted strands of fence wire with barbs at regular intervals.
Wiktionary
- n. Twisted strands of steel wire, often coated with zinc, having barbs evenly spaced along them; used to construct agricultural and military fences.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.
WordNet 3.0
- n. strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage
Examples
“At that time there was a village, or at least a ramshackle assemblage of huts, on the other side of the barbed wire from Camp Enari, called Sin City.”
“Lebanon's state news agency said about 40 Palestinians from various refugee camps had gathered in the southern town of Oudyssa, and that a Lebanese army unit immediately cordoned off the area "and requested the men leave and keep away from the barbed wire for their own safety.”
The Wall Street Journal: Violence Flares Up at Israeli Border
“We got 3 layers of barbed wire and 50s all around the permeter.”
““Are there not other alternatives than sending our armies to chew barbed wire in Flanders?” he demanded of Asquith on December 29.”
“Coils of barbed wire were added to makeshift security checkpoints set up at the entrances to the square.”
USA Today: Egyptians rally, demand trials for police shooters
“The bartender was an over-the-hill ex-wrestler and competition weight lifter from New Orleans, with a walleye and a polished round head and strands of braided barbed wire tattooed around both his upper arms.”
“A new extra-high chain-link fence topped with coils of barbed wire blocked access to the dry docks and the acreage where Suits envisioned his container freight station.”
“A little later, there was another dirt road on the same side, with the same sign and the same pipe barrier, and a little after that a fence came marching at an angle out of the woods and then ran along next to the road; an eight-foot-high chain-link fence with two strands of barbed wire angling outward at the top.”
“Washington and Swagger found the nondescript old factory building on Mannheim Road, in an area zoned for light manufacturing, each building separated from the others by cyclone fences with barbed wire discouragement up top.”
“The convention could take place in the Chicago Amphitheatre once Daley had it wrapped in barbed wire and surrounded by armed guards.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘barbed wire’.
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Cattle
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includes words of the "Prodcom list"
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Down on the Farm
All things farm and agriculture related.
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There's A Virtual Museum For That!
List of virtual or on-line museums, from barf bags to corkscrews. List museum subject and in comment form provide a link to the virtual museum.
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The Last Werewolf
This novel by Glen Duncan, aside from being a ripping yarn and beautifully written, is just littered with words that I had to look up and discover that often his use of the word not only fitted per...
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Apples to Apples: Red Cards
A complete list of the red cards (things) from the popular word game.
bad haircut, carnival workers, grave robbers, Chinatown, a cheap motel, killer whales, UV rays, flat tire, Japan, Michelangelo, Alfred Hitchcock, Cindy Crawford and 734 more...
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Most often mispronounced words
across, affidavit, antarctic, arctic, ask, athlete, barbiturate, barbed wire, business, cavalry, candidate, cardsharp and 50 more...
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Tunie: No Man's Land
By Eric Bogle.
Well, how'd you do, Private Willie McBride,
D'you mind if I sit down here by your graveside?
I'll rest for a while in the warm summer sun,
Been walking...again, vain, dying, killing, shame, glory, sorrow, suffering, end, war, the cause, why and 47 more...
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Triangulation
Sometimes I wish there were a way to create matrices or charts here, but I'm going to see whether I can use a list to get to the same place. This will be an attempt to map out an iroquoisy sequence...
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