Obs. [app. due to confusion of BARB v. and BEARD.] To clip; = BARB v. 2.

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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.

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1693.  W. Robertson, Phraseol. Gen., 207. To Bard, or beard wool, extremitates vellerum tondere.

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