BARB
/bɑː(ɹ)b/
8
Scrabble
10
WWF
B(3) A(1) R(1) B(3)
NWL/TWL ✓ Collins ✓ WWF ✓
Definition
/bɑː(ɹ)b/
noun
- The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
- A hurtful or disparaging remark.
- A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
verb
- To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
- To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.
- To cut (hair).
Source: Wiktionary
