Barb

(noun.) one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather.

(noun.) a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove.

(noun.) the pointed part of barbed wire.

(verb.) provide with barbs; 'barbed wire'.

校对:朱莉娅

• The Chinese war rocket was a long, heavy affair, fitted at the end with a barb-like arrow, and to a foe unacquainted with firearms, it must have seemed a formidable missile. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• The barb is allied to the carrier, but, instead of a long beak, has a very short and broad one. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• There are no fears of poison, none of the barb which no leech's hand can extract. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.

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