unbarbed

[uhn-bahrbd]

adjective

Origin of unbarbed

First recorded in 1555–65; un-¹ + barb¹ + -ed³

Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Each man had with him unbarbed arrows and a bow for hunting.
Castes and Tribes of Southern India
Edgar Thurston
The men carried small, unbarbed fish-spears, the women and children baskets and bundles of oap.
"Five-Head" Creek; and Fish Drugging In The Pacific
Louis Becke