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Part Of A Fishhook Crossword Clue

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We've checked our database and believe the answer is BARB which was last seen in the New York Times crossword.
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noun

• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect

• the pointed part of barbed wire

• a subsidiary point facing opposite from the main point that makes an arrowhead or spear hard to remove

• one of the parallel filaments projecting from the main shaft of a feather

verb

• provide with barbs

29%10 Like a fishhook or thorn in appearance
adjective satellite

• having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

29%10 Resembling a fishhook
adjective satellite

• shaped in the form of a hook

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New York Times16 Jun 2014 Down 27
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