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 Translation for 'barbed wire' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   barbed wire | -
SYNO barbed wire | barbwire
gaddavír {k}barbed wire
5+ Words
Ég reif buxurnar mínar á gaddavírnum.I tore my pants on the barbed wire.
Partial Matches
þráður {k} [taug]wire
rafm.
leiðsla {kv}
wire
vír {k}wire
tæk.
suðuvír {k}
welding wire
verkfæri
vírbursti {k}
wire brush
vírgirðing {kv}wire fence
hænsnanet {hv}mesh wire
rafmagnsvír {k}electrical wire
rafmagnsleiðsla {kv}electrical wire
rafm.
núllvír {k}
neutral wire
koparvír {k}copper wire
vírnet {hv}wire mesh
girðingarnet {hv}mesh wire
stálull {kv}wire wool [Br.]
tölvufr.
punktaprentari {k}
(wire) matrix printer
víra e-ð (saman)to fasten sth. together with wire
rafm.verkfæri
afeinangrari {k}
wire stripper [electrician's tool]
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Usage Examples English
  • Its main purpose was to suppress enemy fire, crush obstacles such as barbed-wire entanglements, and protect the infantry on their advance into and through enemy lines by giving mobile overwatch and cover.
  • In 1961, the East German government under Walter Ulbricht erected a barbed-wire barrier around West Berlin, officially called the "antifaschistischer Schutzwall" (anti-fascist protective barrier).
  • At home he constructed such devices as models of planes, a radio-controlled model boat and a barbed-wire telegraph system to a friend's house a half-mile away.
  • Barbed wire, also known as barb wire, is a type of steel fencing wire constructed with sharp edges or points arranged at intervals along the strands.
  • In 2020 China–India skirmishes personnel of People's Liberation Army Ground Force were seen using makeshift maces (batons wrapped in barbed wire and clubs embedded with nails).

  • New tactical roles included cutting barbed wire and providing "creeping barrages" to both screen its own attacking troops and suppressing the enemy defenders to prevent them from shooting at their attackers.
  • Some local farming communities that were not connected to the main networks set up barbed wire telephone lines that exploited the existing system of field fences to transmit the signal.
  • After the war most of his paintings were religious allegories or depictions of post-war suffering, including his 1948 "Ecce homo with self-likeness behind barbed wire".
  • An important weakness of abatis, in contrast to barbed wire, is that it can be destroyed by fire.
  • Just as modern military engineers enhance field fortifications with obstacles such as barbed wire, medieval engineers used a number of obstacle types including abatis, caltrops, cheval de frise, and trou de loup.

  • They were unable to traverse a battlefield obstructed by craters, barbed wire, and trenches.
  • East German troops and workers had begun to tear up streets running alongside the border to make them impassable to most vehicles and to install barbed wire entanglements and fences along the [...] around the three western sectors, and the [...] that divided West and East Berlin.
  • mines and miles of barbed wire. [...] Alexander and Montgomery intended to establish a superiority of force sufficient to achieve a breakthrough and exploit it to destroy [...].
  • In 2020 works to remove the barbed wire from the top of the fence (meanwhile raising its height up to more than [...] in the stretches most susceptible to breaches) were commissioned to [...].
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