barded, ppl. a.
(ˈbɑːdɪd)
[f. bard v. + -ed.]
Armed, caparisoned, or covered with bards.
| 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. i. xlvii, A bardit curser stout and bald. 1535 Coverdale Joel ii. 4 They are to loke vpon like bayrded horses. 1596 Danett Comines' Hist. Fr. (1614) 298 Two thousand men of armes barded. 1795 Southey Joan of Arc vi. 300 A man-at-arms upon a barded steed. 1880 Disraeli Endym. lix. 267 The bells of a barded mule announced the Jester. |
¶ By confusion or misprint for barbed.
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas i. v. 41/3 If the Scolopendra have suckt-in The sowr-sweet morsell with the barded Pin. |