Using high-speed video, she discovered that a cat's tongue is not carpeted in sandpaper-like-bumps at all, instead, sharp claw-shaped barb's cover the front of the tongue.
The sharp metal barbs tore the skin of the men who stretched it along fence tops. But they prevented cattle from pushing over the fences and destroying crops.
Most of the teeth belonged to two species of fish known for their nutritional value and good taste – the Jordan himri (Carasobarbus canis) and the Jordan barbel (Luciobarbus longiceps).
In a ship I belonged to, a small cub Sperm Whale was once bodily hoisted to the deck for his poke or bag, to make sheaths for the barbs of the harpoons, and for the heads of the lances.
Bird feathers have highly water-resistant parts called the pennaceous barb, which stops the water from actually going in and soaking the rest of the bird.
So, the owl feathers, the ends of the barbs have combs or little brushes that basically break up the air in a way that it doesn't produce a sound when it's flying.
" Ego non baptizo te in nomine patris, sed in nomine diaboli! " deliriously howled Ahab, as the malignant iron scorchingly devoured the baptismal blood.
Caught and twisted—corkscrewed in the mazes of the line, loose harpoons and lances, with all their bristling barbs and points, came flashing and dripping up to the chocks in the bows of Ahab's boat.