different between barded vs barred

English

Etymology

bard +? -ed. See bard (“horse armour”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?b??(?)d?d/

Adjective

barded (not comparable)

1. (of a horse) Accoutered with defensive armor
   • circa 1591-1594, William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act I, Scene I, Lines 9-13

     Grim-visag'd war hath smooth'd his wrinkled front;

     And now, instead of mounting barded steeds

     To fright the souls of fearful adversaries,

     He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber

     To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.

2. Wearing rich caparisons.
   • 1841', William Reader, The Ruins of Kenilworth, an Historical Poem

     Fifteen hundred men […] barded and richly trapped.

Anagrams

• Bedard, badder, bredda

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b??(?)d/

Adjective

barred (comparative more barred, superlative most barred)

1. Having bars; striped.
2. Prevented, either by a physical barrier or by conditions.

Translations

Verb

barred

1. simple past tense and past participle of bar

   He barred the door at evening.

Anagrams

• Berard, Brader

Spanish

Verb

barred

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of barrer.