Barbed wire
Barbed wire noun - Strong wire with barbs at regular intervals used to prevent passage.
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Guard and barbed wire are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Guard" instead a noun phrase "Barbed wire".
Guard
Guard noun - A person or group that watches over someone or something.
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A series of 3-4 meter (12-15 foot) high metal fences, walls, armed guards, guard dogs, barbed wire, electric alarms, trenches, watchtowers, automatic guns and minefields.
Source: Useful Notes / Berlin Wall - One way in which several escaped was by getting a job as a Border Guard and then deserting, either by boarding U-and-S Bahn trains in deserted stations or the rather simpler expedient of running up to the barbed wire barrier and jumping over it.
Source: Useful Notes / Berlin Wall
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