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BARBED

Volume 2 · 60 words · 1778 Edition

in a general sense, bearded like a fishhook, set with barbs; also shaved or trimmed.

and Crested, in heraldry, an appellation given to the combs and gills of a cock, when particularized for being of a different tincture from the body.

A barbed crois, is a crois, the extremities whereof are like the barbed irons used for striking of fish.