Obs. [app. due to confusion of BARB v. and BEARD.] To clip; = BARB v. 2.
1641. Termes de la Ley, 61. To bard or beard wooll, is to cut the head and neck from the other part of the Fleece.
1693. W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 207. To Bard, or beard wool, extremitates vellerum tondere.