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Pollard   /pˈɑlərd/   Listen
noun
Pollard  n.  
1.
A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches.
2.
A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. (Obs.)
3.
(Zool.)
(a)
A fish, the chub.
(b)
A stag that has cast its antlers.
(c)
A hornless animal (cow or sheep).



verb
Pollard  v. t.  (past & past part. pollarded; pres. part. pollarding)  To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows.






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"Pollard" Quotes from Famous Books



... company sit or lie down on the shady side of the hedge, under the pollard-willows, and Tom Boldre the shuffler and one or two more go into the farm-house, and come out with great yellow-ware with pies in them, and the little sturdy-looking kegs of beer, and two mugs to go round among them all. There was Harold ...
— Friarswood Post-Office • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Jeff Davis was welcomed to Richmond by the people, says Pollard, the author of the "Southern History of the War," an implacable hater of the North, "with a burst of genuine joy and enthusiasm to which none of the military pageants of the North could furnish a parallel." President Davis, in response to the call of the populace, made a speech, ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 • Various

... peered round his heap of grass, but there were no greenfinches near; they had come out from the hedges, and the starling had come from the hollow pollard where he had a nest, but all had settled a long way off from his hiding-place. Bevis was very angry, so he stood up, and pulled his bow with all his might, and let the arrow fly into the air almost straight up. When it had risen so far, it turned over and came down among the flock of birds and ...
— Wood Magic - A Fable • Richard Jefferies

... and surveyed his companion. There seemed just a shade of doubt in his eyes. They were remarkably large and yellowish gray, those eyes of Joe Pollard, and now and again when he grew thoughtful they became like clouded agate. They had that color now as he gazed at Terry. Eventually his ...
— Black Jack • Max Brand

... quick or minute observer of rural beauties. He had so little of the organ of locality that I suspect he could have lost his way in his own garden. But the Captain was exquisitely alive to external impressions,—not a feature in the landscape escaped him. At every fantastic gnarled pollard he halted to gaze; his eye followed the lark soaring up from his feet; when a fresher air came from the hill-top his nostrils dilated, as if voluptuously to inhale its delight. My father, with all his learning, and though his study had been in the stores of all language, was very rarely eloquent. ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton


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