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BARBED

Volume 3 · 60 words · 1815 Edition

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

BARBED 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 crost, is a crost the extremities whereof are like the barbed irons used for striking fish.