Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Barbed wire (which see, under
barbed ).
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Examples
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Maybe this buck had a life changing encounter while jumping a barb-wire fence?
Whitetail Weirdness 2009
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He had slammed the door before the soap could hit him, his light-hearted chuckles painful to her fragile sanity, like someone had wrapped her body in a strand of barb-wire fencing.
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Maybe this buck had a life changing encounter while jumping a barb-wire fence?
Whitetail Weirdness 2009
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I saw a sharp-tailed grouse fly into a barb-wire fence one time in northeastern Montana and kill itself.
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In Santa Clara, a “town” which appears built solely for visitors, this holds true, that is, if your home happens to be a Godfather-style mansion with ionic columns, protected behind a heavy steel gate with barb-wire on the top, just to make sure no sneaky locals jump into your guarded Eden.
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They are putting up barb-wire fencing all over town and passing out free sleds to all the black and paki kids.
Francesca Anobile jokes from Sickipedia FIDO The Dog 2009
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Odds are, he'd be all tangled in the barb-wire anyway.
And yet another Offensive Meme Don Lewis 2008
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With the landowner's permission, you can create a fence jump by tying the top strand of a barb-wire fence to the one below it.
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A simple potato-microwave explosion; maybe an "accident" involving a rogue moose and a barb-wire fence.
The Call Don Lewis 2008
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Two tanks from Company A moved out to the LD approximately eight hundred yards from the fort and approached the barb-wire enclosure at the north end of the fort.
Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003
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