barbed
/bɑː(ɹ)bd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.27 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
adj
Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.
verb
simple past and past participle of barb
Example Sentences
- "COCKATRICE an imaginary monster resembling a wivern with the head of a cock, the tongue barbed. It occurs displayed, but is ordinarily borne with the wings endorsed."
- "Crest : A demi-cockatrice or, crested gules, stricken through the back of the neck with an arrow sable, barbed and flighted argent. Sable, two bars humettée or between a cock in fesse and a swan in chief and in base argent."
- "The cross barbed has its limbs terminated by arrow-heads; it is sometimes emblazoned cramponée and tournée, but Edmondson gives the last name to a totally different cross, one not unlike the cross fourchée."
- "Ex. A Cock barbed and crested, (that is, wattled and combed, which signifies the Comb and Gills of a Cock, when born of a different Tincture from the Body)"
- "About the year 1446, he carried, as by our old books of blazons, quarterly, first and fourth Marr; second and third Lyle, as above blazoned; for crest, a cock or, crested and barbed gules: motto, An I may; supported by two[…]"
- "PLANT (?Plantagenet). Arg. a rose gu. seeded or barbed vert."
Inflected Forms
more barbed (comparative)
most barbed (superlative)