What does "bard" mean?

Additional senses

1. 2.A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]
2. 3.pl. Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.
3. 4.(Cookery) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.
4. 5.To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.
5. 6.The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.
6. 7.Specifically, Peruvian bark. Bark bed. See Bark stove (below). -- Bark pit, a pit filled with bark and water, in which hides are steeped in tanning. -- Bark stove (Hort.), a glazed structure for keeping tropical plants, having a bed of tanner's bark (called a bark bed) or other fermentable matter which produces a moist heat.