In the arrows of the Bushmen, the shaft is often partly cut through, so as to break when it comes in contact with a bone, and the barb is constructed to remain in the wound when the arrow is withdrawn (Fig.
To the right another kind of barb was produced by binding on a piece of sharp-pointed wood.
There were also a woolen mill, a flour mill, the Gautier Barb Wire Mills of the Cambria Iron Company, and the tannery of W.
This is equally true of the Barb or pure-bred horse of Morocco, and those of the northern coast of Africa, in Egypt, among the Turks, and indeed wherever the followers of the Prophet are to be found.
This was the white Barb Ranger, which was presented by the Emperor of Morocco, as the choice of his stud, to an English naval officer for some distinguished service.
From the upper edge of each barb two sets of minute filaments proceed at an angle similar to that of the barb itself in respect to the shaft.
The barb does not suddenly appear like an inventive mutation, but it very slowly evolves as its usefulness is demonstrated in practice.
These notches are the first indication of the value of the barbin holding a weapon in the flesh.
The arrows of these Slave Indians were two and a half feet long, and the barb was made of bone, horn, flint, or copper.
His eyes filled with horror and shifted down where his hand had clutched at his breast, plucking at one spot as if tearing a barb from his bosom.
Well, it wasn't a week later that he went over to the east line with me to mend a barb wire.
The spear had been cut off, leaving the barb behind, which continued to force its way by muscular action gradually toward the back; and when I examined him I could feel a hard substance between the ribs below the left blade-bone.
Learning from him the object of his journey, and fearing that his wounded brother Lachhman would die before he could get to Ceylon with the requisite remedy, he offered to send Hanumân on upon the barb of one of his arrows, mountain and all.
Bharat placed the arrow to the string of his bow, and drawing it till the barb touched the bow, asked Hanumân whether he was ready.
To try him Hanumân took up his mountain and seated himself with it upon the barb of the arrow as desired.
The frontlet and barb were pieces of white linen, the former worn over the forehead, the latter over the chin.
Spanker himself was by D'Arcy's Yellow Turk from a daughter of the Morocco Barb and Old Bald Peg, by an Arab horse from a Barb mare.
He was got by the Darley Arabian from Betty Leedes, by Careless from sister to Leedes, by Leedes's Arabian from a mare by Spanker out of a Barb mare, who was Spanker's own mother.
Many of the dark-coloured horses of Europe have Barb or Arab blood in their veins, this being markedly the case with the Old English black or Shire horse, the skull of which shows a distinct depression in front of the eye-socket.
Careless was by Spanker from a Barb mare, so that Childers's dam was closely in-bred to Spanker.
Europe are descended from the dun type, with more or less admixture of Barb blood.
The Godolphin Barb or Arabian, as he was commonly called, was a brown bay about 15 hands in stature, with an unnaturally high crest, and with some white on his off hind heel.
Although called an Arabian, there is little doubt he was a Barbpure and simple.
There was a barb in this that rankled after the ladies had gone; and on comparing notes with her daughter, Mrs. Lapham found that a barb had been left to rankle in her mind also.
Sated at last, he stood up again and peered about him.
The heft, where it had been hollowed to hold the lashings, was well marked.
When ready for use, these heads were set on the end of the shaft with heated resin and bound in place with sinew which encircled the end of the arrow and crossed diagonally through the barb notches with many recurrences.
He draws his sturdy bow till the sharpened barb pricks his finger and bids him loose--a hit, a leap, a clattering flight.
We therefore drew our broadheads to the barb and drove two wicked shafts deep into his front.
As I drew a third arrow from my quiver its barb caught in the rawhide, and I swore a soft vicious oath to steady my nerves.
May they give us strength to draw the string to the cheek, the arrow to the barb and loose the flying shaft, so long as life may last.
And she rode on the milk-white steed, And led the barb so grey, Until she came back to her father's castle, One hour before it was day.
And she rode on the milk-white steed, And he on the barb so grey, Until they came to the green, green wood, Three hours before it was day.
And I guess Barb is easy with that big boy of hers.
Granny and Barb dare just come and both help with your things--they both think it's so fine for you to go to the city!
A barb wire fence tacked to spindly cottonwood trees marked the line of an irregular homestead; and the Ranger swung into a gate extemporized from barb wire on two adjustable posts.
The barb had been broken by the rock against which it struck so hard, though the shaft, long, polished and feathered, showed that it had been made by an artist.
The barb of the war arrow was short, and it was not fastened very tightly to the shaft.
If the worm could but make the angler respect, or even fear it, the barb would find some other bait.
I borrow thy quiver of fraud; its still arrows shall strike thee; and thou too shalt say, when the barb pierces home, 'This comes from the hand of a friend.
In his flights, the mischievous boy is apt to hit his head against fossil lizards, and his darts are intercepted by skulls which were petrified before he ever wandered through Paradise and tried his first barb on poor Adam.
The shoulder barbs are usually expanded and broad; thebarb ends may be obtuse or straight.
Retouching often shortened the barbs; in some cases a barb was almost completely worked away.
The turn's at the end of the ninth hole and a-l-a-s, down meansBarb was behind.
The spears were well made; one of them had a single barb of wood fixed on with gum, the other had two large barbs cut out of the solid wood, and it was as finely brought to a point as if it had been made with the sharpest instrument.
Thy barbwhose hoofs outspeed the tempest's flight 5 Bore thee far from me; My heart, for my weak feet were weary soon, Did companion thee.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "barb" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
