See also: Pollard

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A pollard willow.

Etymology

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From poll (head, scalp) +‎ -ard. The coin sense derives from the original penny's uncrowned obverse bust, as opposed to the laurel-wreathed form appearing on the rosary. The verb derives from the noun.

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pollard (plural pollards)

  1. (often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
    • 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “Chapter 65”, in Lorna Doone:
      Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.
    • 1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98:
      Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
    • 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Third, page 116
      And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.
  2. A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
  3. A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.
  4. (obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
  5. (now Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
  6. (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.
    Coordinate terms: crockard, rosary, mitre, leonine, scalding, steeping, eagle

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Verb

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pollard (third-person singular simple present pollards, present participle pollarding, simple past and past participle pollarded)

  1. (horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.

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