Barbule
- n. One of the processes along the edges of the barbs of a feather, by which adjacent barbs interlock. See Feather.
- n. A very minute barb or beard.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.