Pollard

Word POLLARD
Character 7
Hyphenation pol lard
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Pollard"

What do we mean by pollard?

A tree whose top branches have been cut back to the trunk so that it may produce a dense growth of new shoots. noun

An animal, such as an ox, goat, or sheep, that no longer has its horns. noun

To convert or make into a pollard. transitive verb

A tree cut back nearly to the trunk, and thus caused to form a dense head of spreading branches, which are in turn cut for basket-making and fagotwood. Willows and poplars especially are so treated. noun

A clipped coin. noun

A polled animal, as a stag or an ox without horns. noun

Same as poll, 7. noun

A coarse product of wheat. noun

To make a pollard of; convert (a tree) into a pollard by cutting off the head.

To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll. transitive verb

A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches. noun

A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. noun

A fish, the chub. noun

A stag that has cast its antlers. noun

A hornless animal (cow or sheep). noun

A tree that has been pruned by cutting its branches back close to the trunk to promote a more bushy growth of foliage. noun

An animal, such as cattle or deer, whose horns have been removed or shed. noun

The chub (fish), Leuciscus cephalus. noun

A mixture of bran and meal. noun

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.

A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.

A fine grade of bran including some flour.

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.

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The word "pollard" in example sentences

Chris Travers: A pollard is a “beheaded” tree (“pollard” meaning “beheaded”), i.e. a tree which was the upper branches and trunk cut off so that it produces a large quantity of upright shoots. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A pollard is a “beheaded” tree (“pollard” meaning “beheaded”), i.e. a tree which was the upper branches and trunk cut off so that it produces a large quantity of upright shoots. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Chris Travers: A pollard is a “beheaded” tree “pollard” meaning “beheaded”, i.e. a tree which was the upper branches and trunk cut off so that it produces a large quantity of upright shoots. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A pollard is a “beheaded” tree “pollard” meaning “beheaded”, i.e. a tree which was the upper branches and trunk cut off so that it produces a large quantity of upright shoots. ❋ Unknown (2010)

"Epping Forest has the highest remaining concentration of historic pollard trees in Britain," British Naturalists' Association. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Why can't he just be a person with down syndrome? keith pollard ❋ Unknown (2009)

I think I remember when last with you in your Carriage, An Old pollard Oak in Richmond park which resembled an Alderman before dinner, being very hollow, and capable of affording me great accommodation. ❋ Unknown (2009)

We walked between hedge banks of pollard limes and holly in a green tunnel. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Women in striking patchwork dresses of red, yellow, green and blue picked cotton with young boys, and by a village stream shaded by pollard willows a small girl led an enormous cow on a rope. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

A tree itself is a river of sap: through roots that wave about underwater like sea anemones, the willow pollard at one end of the moat where I swim in Suffolk draws gallons of water into the leaf-tips of its topmost branches every day; released as vapour into the summer air, this water then rises invisibly to join the clouds, and the falling raindrops ripple out into every tree ring. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

I pass three dreys in the complex old pollard oaks in the lane. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Each sapling begins life in the nursery as a set, a cutting from a tod, a four-foot pollard mother tree cultivated from stock of the noblest pedigree. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Because of the extra effort of regrowing new poles at each pollarding every twenty years, the pollard trees grow slowly but live longer, like coppice stools. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

In the next village, Thrandeston, a superb ash pollard stands alone at the crossroads on the green. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Every two or three years I must pollard or lay its canopy. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Probably the most ancient use of elm has been to pollard it for animal feed. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

A giant pollard crack willow stands close to the farm gate at the edge of the common. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

We came across a gigantic triple-branching pollard like a wine glass that was about to crack and split itself in two. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

The bollings of pollards in England were generally the property of the landlord, but the tenant farmer was entitled to harvest the pollard wood. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

My friend Helen Reed, who grew up in Thrandeston, has travelled all over Europe in search of pollard trees. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

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