Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Barded \Bard"ed\, p.a. [See {Bard} horse armor.]
   1. Accoutered with defensive armor; -- said of a horse.

   2. (Her.) Wearing rich caparisons.

            Fifteen hundred men . . . barded and richly trapped.
                                                  --Stow.