Meaning

verb go along the rim, like a beard around the chin

adjective having hair on the cheeks and chin

adjective having a growth of hairlike awns

originFrom Middle English berded, either from Old English ġebearded or formed anew in Middle English; by surface analysis, beard + -ed. Compare Dutch bebaarde (“bearded”), Middle Low German bārt (“bearded”), archaic German gebartet (“bearded”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0