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barb-wire

barb-wire is the alternative form of barbed wire.

Meaning of barbed wire

Noun

barbed wire (usually uncountable, plural barbed wires)

  1. (usually) Twisted strands of steel wire, often coated with zinc, having barbs evenly spaced along them; used to construct agricultural and military fences.

Forms of barb-wire

pluralbarb-wires

Questions about barb-wire

What is barb-wire the alternative form of?
Barb-wire is the alternative form of barbed wire.

Words near barb-wire in the dictionary

  1. barazas
  2. barazoku
  3. barb
  4. barb wire
  5. barb wires
  6. barb-wire
  7. barb-wires
  8. Barb.
  9. barbacan
  10. barbacans
  11. barback

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barb-wire (page history and authors); barbed wire (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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