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barb

A shortening of "barbiturate," a drug class that consists of sedatives and hypnotics. Barbs are dangerous, man—I'd stay away from them. Tad took a barb last night and passed out, man. The police officer discovered that the driver was whacked out on barbs.

barb

n. a barbiturate; a barbiturate capsule. (Drugs.) Joey is so hooked on barbs!

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Coated to avoid dust accumulation and specially designed, the reverse needles have a barb shape designed to aid the normal barb needles in manufacturing an even and strong surface.

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"We are very pleased to have a barbed check valve option for our customers," said Ken Davis, global product line manager.

Value plastics introduces new barbed check valves

To explain these numbers, like other collectibles, if a barbed wire specimen is enough different in appearance to easily see, it is usually defined as another design.

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While this barb design may cut the likelihood of a leak, it also means that Value faces mold-design difficulties and sacrifices cavitation: A barbed fitting with a parting line on its conical section would typically run in an eight-cavity tool with four slides, while Value's design runs in a four-cavity tool that has a more complex arrangement of slides and inserts.

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Delbert Trew is one of the men who helped found the museum and says that he and his fellow barbed wire enthusiasts were inspired by a barbed wire museum in Lacrosse, Kan.

Collecting the devil's rope: Devil's rope museum tells the barbed wire story in Texas, online. (On the road with farm collector)