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

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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

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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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