Barbed Wire Definition

noun
Twisted strands of fence wire with barbs at regular intervals.
American Heritage
Strands of wire twisted together, with barbs at regular, close intervals, used for fencing or military barriers.
Webster's New World

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

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Noun

Singular:
barbed wire
Plural:
barbed-wires

Barbed Wire Sentence Examples

  • I had to sneak around all the barbed wire fencing.

  • The Battalion had parties of specialist machine-gunners and grenade throwers on stand-by, as well as those ready to repair barbed wire.

  • The latter also had two strands of barbed wire strung along the top.

  • By 1914, barbed wire was a standard item in the military defense schemes of all the major belligerents of the Great War.

  • Vines and leaves can twine into concentric circles, and barbed wire also makes a striking pattern.

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