barbed wire
| Cheap fencing material made of strands of galvanized wire (see galvanizing), twisted together with sharp barbs at close intervals. In 1874 an American, Joseph Glidden, devised a machine to mass-produce barbed wire. Its use on the open grasslands of 19th-century America led to range warfare between farmers and cattle ranchers; the latter used to drive their herds cross-country. |
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