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| abatis |
an obstacle constructed by bending and sharpening the branches of trees or implanting sharpened limbs in a soil barricade, sometimes interlaced with barbed wire. |
| banderilla |
a long, barbed, often decorated dart that a banderillero sticks into the neck or shoulder of a bull. |
| barbwire |
see "barbed wire." |
| cyclone fence |
a strong chain-link fence, usu. high and topped with barbed wire, used around military bases, prisons, and the like. |
| flail |
a medieval weapon of similar design but with heavy, often spherical and barbed weights instead of the short bar. [1/6 definitions] |
| harpoon |
a weapon with a long shaft, a barbed head, and a rope at the tail end, which is used like a spear in hunting whales and large fish. [1/2 definitions] |
| unbarbed |
combined form of barbed. |
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