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Webster 1913 Edition
Pollard
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.
(Zool.)
(a)
A fish, the chub.
(b)
A stag that has cast its antlers.
(c)
A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
Pol′lard
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Pollarded
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Pollarding
.] To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll;
as, to
. pollard
willowsEvelyn.
Webster 1828 Edition
Pollard
POL'LARD
,Noun.
1.
A clipped coin.2.
The chub fish.3.
A stag that has cast his horns.4.
A mixture of bran and meal.POL'LARD
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
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English
Noun
pollard (plural pollards)
A pollard willow.
- (often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
- 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone, Chapter 65,
- Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.
- 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone, Chapter 65,
- A buck deer that has shed his antlers
- Hornless varieties of domestic animals, as cattle or goats.
- (obsolete, rare) The chub (L. cephalus), a kind of fish.
- (now Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour.
- (numismatics, historical) 13th-century European coins minted as debased counterfeits of the sterling silver penny of Edward I, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
See also
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.
- 1910, Edward Morgan Forster, Howards End, Chapter 11,
- I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows.
- 1910, Edward Morgan Forster, Howards End, Chapter 11,