The field book : or, Sports and pastimes of the United kingdom ; compiled from the best authorities, ancient and modern (1833)
Maxwell, W. H. (William Hamilton), 1792-1850 · London : E. Wilson · leaf 49
of timber used inthe menage to teach horses to leap. Barb, s. Anything that grows in the place of the beard ; the points thatstand backward in an arrow. Barb, s. A Barbary horse. Vide Arab and Horse. Barb, v. To jag arrows and fishing-hooks. Barbadoes Tar, s. A bituminous substance of strong… … The Barbel is one of the coarsest fishes.In England they are deemed the worst offresh-water fish, and seldom eaten but by thepoorest sort of people, who sometimes boilthem with a piece of bacon to give them arelish. The roe is very noxious, affectingthose unwarily eating it with a vomiting,purging,…
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