barbs

noun barbs

• hooks — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• spurs — a batch of newly made rag-paper sheets.
• arrows — a slender, straight, generally pointed missile or weapon made to be shot from a bow and equipped with feathers at the end of the shaft near the nock, for controlling flight.
• darts — any of various competitive games in which darts are thrown at a dartboard
• gibes — to shift from one side to the other when running before the wind, as a fore-and-aft sail or its boom.