barbed wire

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noun

a wire or strand of wires having small pieces of sharply pointed wire twisted around it at short intervals, used chiefly for fencing in livestock, keeping out trespassers, etc.

Also called barbwire.

Origin of barbed wire

First recorded in 1860–65

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Soon after, the body of a teenage Jewish girl is also found on the barbed-wire, similarly mutilated.

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Hard by was a corral covering perhaps two acres, enclosed with a barbed-wire fence.

Ben Blair |Will Lillibridge
Almost every day big batches would be brought in and placed in the barbed-wire prisoners' cages of every division on this front.

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It's a county of new notice-boards and barbed-wire fences; there's always a policeman round the corner.

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Near Woodside there was barbed-wire along the path, and at the end of every riding it was tarred on the tree-trunks, "Private."

The White Peacock |D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
We placed a few strands of the barbed-wire fencing across the road a little distance ahead of us.

The Black Watch |Scout Joe Cassells

British Dictionary definitions for barbed wire

barbed wire

noun

strong wire with sharply pointed barbs at close intervals Also called (US): barbwire

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