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1: a medieval cloth headdress passing over or under the chin and covering the neck2 a: a sharp projection extending backward (as from the point of an arrow or fishhook) and preventing easy extraction
; also : a sharp projection with its point similarly oblique to something else b: a biting or pointedly critical remark or comment3: 2barbel4: any of the side branches of the shaft of a feather
— see feather illustration5: a plant hair or bristle ending in a hook
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