barbed-wired

Updated: May 9, 2025

Both these railways were strongly blockhoused and barbed-wired, so that any force which was driven into the angle, and held in it by a force behind it, would be in a perilous position. To attempt to round De Wet's mobile burghers into this obvious pen would have been to show one's hand too clearly. In vain is the net laid in sight of the bird.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - The Great Boer War

Barabbas was neither a robber nor a publisher, but a six-barred, barbed-wired, spike-topped Fence. What we really want is an Incorporated Society of Thieves, with some public-spirited old forger to run it for us on business lines."

E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung - Raffles, Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman