Anagrams of: BARBATE

• small brightly colored stout-billed tropical bird having short weak wings

• a rectangular groove made to hold two pieces together

• join with a rabbet joint

• cut a rectangular groove into

• a small cake leavened with yeast

• 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

• provide with barbs

• Father; religious superior; in the Syriac, Coptic, and Ethiopic churches, a title given to the bishops, and by the bishops to the patriarch; a title given to Jewish scholars in the Talmudic period.

• A coarse, often striped, felted fabric from the Middle East, woven from goat or camel hair.

• A loose-fitting sleeveless garment, made from aba or silk, worn by Arabs.

• An outer garment made of the above, very simple in form, worn by the Arabs of the desert. The illustration shows such an aba, made of two breadths of stuff sewed together to make an oblong about four by nine feet.

• a French abbot

• a gradual decline (in size or strength or power or number)

• the outward flow of the tide

• flow back or recede

• hem in fish with stakes and nets so as to prevent them from going back into the sea with the ebb

• fall away or decline