barb

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.

Having two barbs or points.

A hurtful or disparaging remark.

to trade barbs

And she was the only girl in class who did not, sometime through the lesson, get a barb of sarcasm from Miss Brownell, though she made as many mistakes as the rest of them.

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

The barbel is so called […]by reason of his barbs, or wattles at his mouth.

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

Any of various species of freshwater carp-like fish that have barbels and belong to the cyprinid family.

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

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

Undoubtedly—when Ingratitude barbs the Dart of Injury—the wound has double danger in it—

To cut (hair).

To shave or dress the beard of.

To clip; to mow.

O thou pale ſober night, / […] / The ſtooping Sitheman that dooth barbe the field, / Thou makſt winke ſure: […]

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

Why sends not the Bridegroom his promised gift, / Is his heart more cold, or his barb less swift?

However, in the last few years, the stud farms in Morocco and elsewhere in the world have rediscovered the qualities of the barb, which, in Berber tradition, remains the king of the "fantasias", a festival that is also becoming fashionable once again.

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