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What does barbed wire mean?

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Noun
  1. Twisted strands of steel wire, often coated with zinc, having barbs evenly spaced along them; used to construct agricultural and military fences.
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There was no law and order, even when the soldiers came and made a barricade with barbed wire outside the station.
One field skirted the edge of a primary school, which was fenced off with barbed wire and guard posts.
They forced their way through a wall of brush and then took wire cutters to a rusting barbed wire fence that stood in their way.
He was a motorbiking enthusiast who kept a Rottweiler and had erected barbed wire around part of his garden fence to keep intruders out.
Ordinary galvanized barbed wire can be used between the tubes to provide reinforcement, and to make the structures resistant to earthquakes.
Soldiers put in place barbed wire and razor wire, dug up fields next to the barrier, and widened a water-filled ditch.

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