unbarbed

American  

[uhn-bahrbd] / ʌnˈbɑrbd /

adjective

1. barbless.

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Etymology

Origin of unbarbed

First recorded in 1555–65; un- ¹ + barb ¹ + -ed ³

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Example Sentences

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unbarbed

I'm glad I took it--it was the only refreshing thing in that dry, unrevealing, tense half-hour, which was odd since the questions were unbarbed and the subject well known to this doting father.

From Time Magazine Archive

Must I go show them my unbarbed sconce?

From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Delia Bacon

This is attached to a long line and fitted into a copper cap on the end of a long pole, the whole constituting an unbarbed spear.

From Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885 by Various

Having spread his excellent bed of barbed and unbarbed arrows, that hero lieth on it like the divine Skanda on a clump of heath.

From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

The men carried small, unbarbed fish-spears, the women and children baskets and bundles of oap.

From "Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific 1901 by Louis Becke

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