Pollard
['pɒləd] or ['pɑlɚd]
Definition
(noun.) a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed.
(noun.) a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage.
Checker: Seymour--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches.
(n.) A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit.
(n.) A fish, the chub.
(n.) A stag that has cast its antlers.
(n.) A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
(v. t.) To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows.
Checker: Sabina
Definition
n. a tree having the whole crown cut off leaving it to send out new branches from the top of the stem: an animal without horns: a coarse kind of bran from wheat.—v.t. to make a pollard of.
Checked by Candy
Examples
- A fire was burning under a pollard thorn a few paces off, over which three kettles hung in a row. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I pointed to where our village lay, on the flat in-shore among the alder-trees and pollards, a mile or more from the church. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Inputed by Bobbie