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orifice
Noun
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An orifice is an opening into the body.
The mouth is an orifice.
barb
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noun
(= shot, shaft, dig)
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
his parting shot was 'drop dead'
she threw shafts of sarcasm
she takes a dig at me every chance she gets
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noun
a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove
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noun
the pointed part of barbed wire
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noun
one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather
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verb
provide with barbs
barbed wire