Definition of "barb-wire" [barb-wire]

• Barbed wire (which see, under barbed). (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Maybe this buck had a life changing encounter while jumping a barb-wire fence?"
• "He had slammed the door before the soap could hit him, his light-hearted chuckles painful to her fragile sanity, like someone had wrapped her body in a strand of barb-wire fencing."
• "I saw a sharp-tailed grouse fly into a barb-wire fence one time in northeastern Montana and kill itself."