Crossword-Solution: BARB 4 letters, 270 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Barb	n.	Beard, or that which resembles it, or grows in the place of it.
Barb	n.	A muffler, worn by nuns and mourners.
Barb	n.	Paps, or little projections, of the mucous membrane, which mark the opening of the submaxillary glands under the tongue in horses and cattle. The name is mostly applied when the barbs are inflamed and swollen.
Barb	n.	The point that stands backward in an arrow, fishhook, etc., to prevent it from being easily extracted. Hence: Anything which stands out with a sharp point obliquely or crosswise to something else.
Barb	n.	A bit for a horse.
Barb	n.	One of the side branches of a feather, which collectively constitute the vane. See Feather.
Barb	n.	A southern name for the kingfishes of the eastern and southeastern coasts of the United States; -- also improperly called whiting.
Barb	n.	A hair or bristle ending in a double hook.
Barb	v. t.	To shave or dress the beard of.
Barb	v. t.	To clip; to mow.
Barb	v. t.	To furnish with barbs, or with that which will hold or hurt like barbs, as an arrow, fishhook, spear, etc.
Barb	n.	The Barbary horse, a superior breed introduced from Barbary into Spain by the Moors.
Barb	n.	A blackish or dun variety of the pigeon, originally brought from Barbary.
Barb	n.	Armor for a horse. Same as 2d Bard, n., 1.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
BARB	anagram	ABBR, BRAB, RABB

We have 270 clues for the answer “BARB”

Clue	Answers
"That's cold!" elicitor	1 answer
"___ and Star Go to Vista Del Mar" (Kristen Wiig film)	1 answer
*Part of a fishhook	1 answer
AUSTRALIAN black kelpie	1 answer
Acerbic remark	1 answer
Aggressive witticism	1 answer
Arrow feature.	1 answer
Arrow point.	1 answer
Arrow projection	1 answer
BEARDLIKE feeler/filament at mouth of fish	1 answer
BLACK kelpie	1 answer
Backward-facing part of hook	1 answer
Barbary horse	1 answer
Burn book line	1 answer
Carping remark	1 answer
Caustic comment	1 answer
Comeback, perhaps	1 answer
Cruel shaft of wit.	1 answer
Curved point	1 answer
Cutting coment	1 answer
Pointed remark or sharp projection	1 answer
Disincentive for fence-sitting	1 answer
Don Rickles remark	1 answer
Dorothy Parker comment, typically	1 answer
End of a fishhook	1 answer
Farm fence feature	1 answer
Feather branch	1 answer
Feather tip	1 answer
Feathered part.	1 answer
Fence's deterrent	1 answer
Fence-sitter's deterrent	1 answer
First wife of Bill on HBO's "Big Love"	1 answer
Fishhook adjunct	1 answer
Fishhook component	1 answer
Fishhook feature	1 answer
Fishhook point	1 answer
Fishhook projection	1 answer
Fishhook spike	1 answer
Fishhook's end	1 answer
Fishook feature	1 answer
Good name for someone with a sharp tongue?	1 answer
HOOK part	1 answer
Harpoon point	1 answer
Hook feature	1 answer
Hook point	1 answer
Hook projection	1 answer
Hooked point.	1 answer
Horse of North African breed.	1 answer
It hooks the fish.	1 answer
It might sting	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.

Hint 2 anagram

REAA

Hint 3 another clue

CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE

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Sentences with BARB (5)

They were indignant at the random slur Cast on my parentage and did their best To comfort me, but still the venomed barb Rankled, for still the scandal spread and grew.

The Oedipus Trilogy Sophocles 2000

The barb of that harpoon ought not to show like that, because it is down inside the whale and ought to be out of sight, but it cannot be helped; if the barb were removed people would think some one had stuck a whip-stock into the whale.

What Is Man? And Other Stories Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 1993

Christ, we don't even know the questions much less the answers and, well, we know he calls 911 to change a lightbulb." His affection for the President was clear through the barb.

Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993

The tearing of the cruel barb into her side brought a sudden scream of pain and fright from the mare, and then they both wheeled and broke for safety; but Tarzan of the Apes, for a distance of a few yards, could equal the speed of even these, and the first stride of the mare found her overhauled, with a savage beast at her shoulder.

Tarzan and the Jewels of Opar Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995

See 1st Barb.] One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.

Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Noah Webster 1995

Quotes with BARB (3)

Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué."[Letter to Armand Barbès, 12 May 1867]

George Sand Correspondance

Fear sticks like a barb in the mind. Someone cold enough to take advantage of it can attach strings to those barbs and make puppets of men and women.

Lance Conrad The Price of Loyalty

About a week earlier I had finished a book (on the Hell's Angels, scheduled this fall by Random House) and I felt that I needed about a week of total degeneration to cool out my system. To this end I went down to Big Sur and Monterery and filled my body with every variety of booze and drug available to modern man. For six or seven days I ran happily amok - spending money, sitting in baths, and futilely hunting wild boar with a .44 Magnum revolver. At one point I gave my car a…

Hunter S. Thompson The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Custom, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Slate, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 431 times in crossword archives (1950–2025).