Barbed

a.	1.	Accoutered with defensive armor; - said of a horse. See Barded (which is the proper form.
	1.	Furnished with a barb or barbs; as, a barbed arrow; barbed wire. Barbed wire a wire, or a strand of twisted wires, armed with barbs or sharp points. It is used for fences.

Adj.	1.	barbed - capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism"; "pungent satire" Synonyms: biting, mordacious, nipping, pungent
	2.	barbed - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" Synonyms: barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, setaceous, setose, spiny, burred, burry, prickly, thorny, bristly

acanthoid, acanthous, acicular, acuate, aculeate, aculeiform, acuminate, acute, cornuted, cusped, cuspidate, hispid, horned, horny, mucronate, needle-pointed, needle-sharp, pointed, pronged, sharp-pointed, spiculate, spiked, spiky, spined, spinous, spiny, tapered, tapering, tined, toothed, unbated