Barbed wire
Barbed wire noun - Strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage.
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Wall and barbed wire are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Wall" instead a noun phrase "Barbed wire".
Wall
Wall noun - A physical object that blocks the way.
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- Staple weapons are barbed wire, thumbtacks, fire and broken glass, with the probability of even more off-the-wall choices.
Source: Gimmick Matches -
The ring crew apparently has fun improvising some as well, such as stitching together a wall of steel chairs using barbed wire and bats made of carpet strips.
Source: Wrestling / CZW -
The wall inside Berlin proper evolved from barbed wire and brickwork to specially-designed L-shaped concrete elements; hard to scale, and if you were to ram a vehicle into it the L-shape would make it topple forward, catching the vehicle on the lower bar.
Source: Useful Notes / Berlin Wall
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