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A point that doesn't just stop you — it makes leaving its own punishment.
means Fitted with a sharp backward-facing point that catches and tears on the way out, or — figuratively — sharp and wounding, as in a barbed remark.
from From 'barb,' which came through Old French 'barbe' from Latin 'barba,' meaning 'beard.' The barb of a hook or arrow was the little tuft or point that bristled out backward like facial hair — a beard of metal. The word for a cutting comment is the same image carried into speech: a remark with a hook on it that you feel most when you try to pull away.
- patent year
- Modern barbed wire patented by Joseph Glidden in 1874
- tamed the west
- Ended open-range cattle ranching across America
- war veteran
- Defined the deadly no-man's-land of WWI trenches
- wit too
- A barbed remark hooks before you feel the sting
concertina wire — barbed wire coil used in wwi trenches and modern borders, invented 1874
porcupine quills — barbed spines on north american porcupines that catch in predator skin
fishhook barbs — backward-facing points on fishing hooks that prevent fish escape