barb·wire

[bahrb-wahyuhr]
noun
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barbwire

noun
strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage [syn: barbed wire
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Barbwire is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
Example sentences
Appellant was rocking the vehicle back and forth, trying to extricate the truck from the ditch and tangle of barbwire.
The vehicle collided with a barbwire fence and continued across the field.
We had quite a few of them in the maximum-security building and that had a fence all the way around it with barbwire over the top.
The three strands of barbwire had been pulled from the rickety wooden fence posts surrounding the shack.
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