Pollard

Quick meaning: Pollard is a noun meaning (often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.

Meaning

(often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.

More Meanings

1. A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
2. A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.
3. (now Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
4. (horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
5. (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.
6. (obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.

Example Sentences

I walked up the path, passing under a heavily pollarded oak.

Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.

I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows.

And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.

Word Forms

• pollards
• pollarding
• pollarded

Synonyms for pollard

Depending on context, synonyms include poll.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include poll, willows, lop, crop, shear, clip.

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