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Barbed vs Garbed - What's the difference?

barbed | garbed |

As verbs the difference between barbed and garbed

is that barbed is (barb) while garbed is (garb).

As an adjective barbed

is having barbs.

barbed

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having barbs
  • (heraldry) Bearded (also applied to roses).
  • (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor; barded.
    • (Sir Walter Raleigh)

    Verb

    (head)
  • (barb)

    • Derived terms

    * barbed wire

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    garbed

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (garb)

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    garb

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) and (etyl) gear).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  • A type of dress or clothing.
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  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
  • (lb) A guise, external appearance.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb , he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dress in garb.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) gerbe; akin to German Garbe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldiccharge) A wheat sheaf.
  • A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
  • * 1957 , H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , page 118.
    • Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.''

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