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Stick on bottom, wounding (6)

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barbed

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(Other definitions for barbed that I've seen before include "Having sharp spikes, wire or comment" , "Having projecting points, perhaps wire" , "Like cruel joke" , "Like the sort of wire" , "(Of wire) having short spikes at intervals" .)

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