barbed > define

verb

• Provide with barbs.
  • usage: "barbed wire"
  • synonyms: barb

adjective

• Capable of wounding.
  • usage: "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire"
  • synonyms: biting, nipping, pungent, mordacious
• Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc..
  • usage: "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"
  • synonyms: barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny

• (a.) Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire.
• (imp.&p.p.) of Barb.
• (a.) Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse. See Barded ( which is the proper form.).