barb

barb

1. väkänen

2. barbi

3. (huumeslangi) barbituraatti

Synonyymisanakirja

barb

höyty, väkä, väkänen, kärki, alkusäie, säie.

Liittyvät sanat: barbaari, barbaarimainen, barbaarimaisesti, barbaarimaisuus, barbaarinen, barbaarisesti.

Slangisanakirja

1. barbiida: hyppyleikki

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Englannin sanakirja

barb (englanti > suomi)

1. väkänen

2. hevoshaarniska

3. höytysäde

4. särkikala

5. kauluri

barb englanniksi

1. 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.

2. (rfdate) (w)

Having two barbs or points.

3. puhekieltä A hurtful or disparaging remark.

4. A beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.

The barbel, so called by reason of his barbs, or wattles in his mouth.

5. armor Armor for a horse, corrupted from bard.

6. 1786, Francis Grose, A Treatise on Ancient Armour and Weapons, page 29:

The defensive armor with the horses of the ancient knights ... These are frequently, though improperly, stiled barbs.

7. puhekieltä One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane.

8. puhekieltä Several species of freshwater fish of the cyprinid family.

9. puhekieltä A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; also improperly called whiting.

10. puhekieltä A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.

11. puhekieltä A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

12. puhekieltä A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.

13. pap Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen. Written also barbel and barble.

14. puhekieltä A bit for a horse.

(rfquotek)

15. A plastic fastener, shaped roughly like a capital I (with serifs), used to attach socks etc. to their packaging.

16. To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.

17. 1674, (w), (w), Book 6, lines 544-6, https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Paradise_Lost_(1674)/Book_VI

(..) for this day will pour down, / If I conjecture aught, no drizzling shower, / But rattling storm of arrows barbed with fire.

18. (RQ:RJfrs AmtrPqr)

Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out. Indeed, a nail filed sharp is not of much avail as an arrowhead; you must have it barbed, and that was a little beyond our skill.

19. 1944, (w), (w), "Meg the Worker," http://www.gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100121h.html

Her coat was a tangled mass, barbed with last year's burs, matted disgustingly with cow dung.

20. To cover a horse in armor, corrupted from bard.

21. 1592, (w), (w), Act I, Scene I, line 10:

And now, in stead of mounting barbed steeds / To fright the souls of fearful adversaries, / He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber(nb..).

22. puhekieltä To shave or dress the beard of.

23. puhekieltä To clip; to mow.

24. The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.

25. A blackish or dun variety of pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.

26. barbel

27. sharp, drastic

28. cruel, rough

29. sharp point, javelin

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