barred, ppl. a.
(bɑːd)
Also 5 barrid, 6–7 bard(e.
[f. bar v. and n.1 + -ed.]
I. 1. Secured, enclosed, or shut with bars.
| 1593 Shakes. Rich. II, i. i. 180 A ten times barr'd vp chest. 1611 Bible Song. Sol. iv. 12 A garden inclosed [marg. barred] is my sister. 1820 Scott Abbot xix, The close-barred portal. 1862 Thornbury Turner II. 228 Turner was notoriously a barred-up man, a man who would come to the threshold of his mind..but would by no means open the door. |
II. Having, or furnished with, a bar or bars.
2. generally.
| a 1571 Jewel Serm. bef. Queen (1583) The ægyptians had mighty chariots, straked and barred with yron. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 474 ¶2 Five-barred gates. 1825 Scott Talism. i, His barred helmet of steel. |
3. Ornamented with bars (see bar n.1 4); striped, streaked. spec. in Zool. names (see quots.); also Comb., as barred-breasted adj.
| c 1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 159 Silk bordes, barred ful ryche. c 1386 Chaucer Miller's T. 49 A seint she wered barred all of silk. 1387 Trevisa Higden Rolls Ser. VI. 297 Clerks dede awey barred gurdelles. 1459 Test. Ebor. (1855) II. 235 Meam..Cristenynge-gyrdill barred throgh-oute. 1552 Eng. Ch. Furniture (1866) 221 One of black velvet and an other of barde silke. 1572 J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 31 b, Armes may in diuerse wise be Barred, and the firste maner is playne and streyghte. 1797 T. Bewick Birds I. 9 The feathers on the thighs are..pure white; those of the tail are barred. 1809 Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. i. 113 Barred-Breasted Buzzard. Falco lineatus. 1811 Wilson Amer. Ornith. IV. 61 Barred Owl, Strix nebulosa,..is frequently observed flying during day. 1885 Swainson Prov. Names Birds 98 Lesser spotted woodpecker (Dendrocopus minor). Also called Little wood pie (Hants). Barred woodpecker. 1961 R. South Moths of Brit. Isles (ed. 4) II. 147 The Barred Carpet (Perizoma taeniata Steph.). Ibid. 150 The Barred Rivulet (Perizoma bifaciata Haw.). Ibid. 168 The Barred Straw (Lygris pyraliata Schiff.). |
4. Of harbours: Obstructed by a bar n.1 15.
| 1552 T. Barnabe in Ellis Orig. Lett. ii. II. 198 In all France be barde havens. 1647 Fuller Gd. Th. in Worse T. (1841) 132 Barred havens, choked up with the envious sands. 1796 Morse Amer. Geog. I. 427 Its decline is attributed to a barred harbour and shoal rivers. 1858 Merc. Mar. Mag. V. 48 The river forms a barred harbour. |
† 5. barred dice (cf. bar n.1 21): see quot. Obs.
| 1532 Dice Play (1850) 24 Lo, here..a well-favoured die, that seemeth good and square, yet is the forehead longer on the cater & tray than any other way..Such be also called bard cater tres, because, commonly, the longer end will, of his own sway, draw downwards, and turn up to the eye sice, sinke, deuis or ace. 1604 Dekker Honest Wh. Wks. 1873 II. 145 She suffred your tongue, like a bard Cater tra, to runne all this while. |
6. Mus. Marked off by bars: see bar n.1 16.
| 1883 Sir H. Oakeley Bible Psalter Pref. 6 To hesitate..just before the barred or strict time commences. |
¶ For bard ppl. a. = barded.
| 1612 Drayton Polyolb. xii. 206 Armed cap-à-pie upon their barred horse. |