barred p ppl
   1 Of a net, enclosing a school of fish in the water.
   1960 FUDGE 51 At that time herring was very plentiful and we saw twenty American vessels tied up with scaffolds on them, waiting for frost, and dozens of seines were barred full of herring.2 Of a fisherman's sweater or guernsey, knitted with stripes or 'cables.'
   1914 Cadet Apr, p. 7 Rough clothing was worn in those days including swanskin drawers, moleskin trousers with an occasional change to canvas and heavy sleeved waistcoat or barred guernsey. Q 71-15 A barred guernsey [was] a rollnecked heavy dark blue wool sweater made popular by Coaker's fishermen's union. Q 71-8 Barred means knitted with ribs or 'cables.'

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