different between yarded vs barded

English

yarded

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

barded (not comparable)

(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.
Wearing rich caparisons.
- 1841', William Reader, The Ruins of Kenilworth, an Historical Poem
  Fifteen hundred men […] barded and richly trapped.

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