Bayard

·adj A stupid, clownish fellow.

II. Bayard ·adj Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse.

Taylor, Bayard
(1825-1878) Poet, b. in Pennsylvania of Quaker descent, began to write by the time he was 12. Appre...

Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. Cousin
bayard of ten toes
To ride bayard of ten toes, is to walk on foot. Bayard was a horse famous in old romances, ...

Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose