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n. (cx historical English) Armour for a warhorse. vb. (present participle of bard English)
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Barding (also spelled bard or barb) is armour for horses. During the late Middle Ages as armour protection for knights became more effective, their mounts became targets. This tactic was effective for the Scots at the Battle of Bannockburn in the 14th century when horses were killed by the infantry, and for the English at the Battle of Crécy in the same century where archers shot horses and heavy infantry killed the French knights after they were dismounted. Barding developed as a response to such events.
Surviving period examples of barding are rare; however, complete sets are on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Wallace Collection in London, the Royal Armouries in Leeds, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Usage examples of "barding".
The ways of Barding are many, but all are important in the life of this land, and all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.
But elsewhere there are other forces at work that blacken the names of Bards and the arts of Barding, sowing lies to plant suspicion where once was trust, and hatred where once was love.
Bards, perhaps about half of them, come from families in which Barding has never been knownI am one of thoseothers do not.
Maerad had been about to ask him why his Barding had led him to search out the Dark.
Maerad and Cadvan agreed to keep quiet about Barding, and Maerad had no lessons the next nightfall.
Maninae was unusual in that he was both a King and a Bard, although in him the Barding was not strong and he forswore Barding when he became King.
The unity of Edil-Amarandh was a result of the influence of Barding, rather than any enforcement under Kings.
This was because of the dual authorities of Barding and ruling authorities, both of which shared governance of their various peoples, and which by their complex nature mitigated against absolute rule.
But more than that, she seemed to have an innate knowledge of Barding, which her teachers merely had to reawaken.
Schools, did not remember the broader patterns of responsibilities and kinship that operated in Barding households, and it struck her for the first time.
Although Lyla was not a Bard, her father had taught her many Barding skills: she was formidably well readespecially when compared to Maerad, who had hardly read any books at alland knew most of the great lays by heart.
Then along came spring and the barding and wandering season, and everything indoors began looking unspeakably dreary, and everything outdoors began somehow pulling at me, and next thing I knew I was on my way.
At an early age, he completed his training at a renowned barding college and graduated with highest honors.
There is a barding college there with a fine teacher who taught me all I know.
Even the horse's armor was gilded, and his bardings were shimmering crimson silk emblazoned with the lion of Lannister.