Obs. [UN-1 8. See BARB v. 1 and 2.)

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  1.  Of cloth: Not barbed or clipped.

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1535.  Act 27 Hen. VIII., c. 13 § 1. No wollen cloth … shuld be conveyed ouer the See unrowed, unbarbed and unshorne.

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1541–2.  Act 33 Hen. VIII., c. 19. Any coloured Clothe above the value of thre poundes, unrowed, unbarbed or unshorne.

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1643.  Docq. Lett. Pat. at Oxf. (1837), 363. To transporte all wollen clothes vnrowed, vnbarbd, vnshorne, and not fully drest.

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  2.  poet. Unmown, uncut.

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1612.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xiii. 112. When with his hounds The laboring Hunter tufts the thicke unbarbed grounds Where harbor’d is the Hart.

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1652.  Benlowes, Theoph., XII. lvii. The Virgin-meads, whose gaies Unbarb’d perk up to prank the curled stream.

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