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POLLARD
pollard
(noun) a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed
pollard
(noun) a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage
poll, pollard
(verb) convert into a pollard; “pollard trees”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Proper noun
Pollard
A surname.
Etymology
Noun
pollard (plural pollards)
(often, attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
A hornless variety of domestic animal, as cattle or goats.
(obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
(now Australian) A fine grade of bran including some flour.
(numismatics, historical) A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
Coordinate terms: crockard, rosary, mitre, leonine, scalding, steeping, eagle
Verb
pollard (third-person singular simple present pollards, present participle pollarding, simple past and past participle pollarded)
(horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
Source: Wiktionary
Pol"lard, n. Etym: [From Poll the head.]
1. A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches. Pennant.
2. A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. [Obs.] Camden.
3. (Zoöl.) (a) A fish, the chub. (b) A stag that has cast its antlers. (c) A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
Pol"lard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pollarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Pollarding.]
Definition: To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows. Evelyn.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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