pollard
Americannoun
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a tree cut back nearly to the trunk, so as to produce a dense mass of branches.
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an animal, as a stag, ox, or sheep, having no horns.
verb (used with object)
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pollards,
present (3rd person singular)
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pollarded,
past participle, past
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pollarding
present participle
noun
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an animal, such as a sheep or deer, that has either shed its horns or antlers or has had them removed
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a tree that has had its top cut off to encourage the formation of a crown of branches
verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
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Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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pollardsimple
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pollardssimple
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have pollardedperfect
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has pollardedperfect
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am pollardingprogressive
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are pollardingprogressive
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is pollardingprogressive
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have been pollardingperfect progressive
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has been pollardingperfect progressive
Past
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pollardedsimple
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had pollardedperfect
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was pollardingprogressive
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were pollardingprogressive
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had been pollardingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of pollard
Example Sentences
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Mr McBride, who records ancient trees in Wales, said the oak had enormous cultural significance as it was a pollard - it had not grown in the field naturally.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2018
The pollard heads are now the size of softballs, or larger.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
This permits the tree to develop knobbly structures called pollard heads, which form natural defenses against wound decay.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
An old pollard in Savernake Forest that could date back to Saxon times.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2014
‘And the dicky-bird sang in the tree,’” she trilled out, as step by step she drew herself up into the crown of the stumpy, gnarled pollard.
From Thereby Hangs a Tale Volume One by George Manville Fenn
The trees which lined the road were much lower, being indeed mere pollards, and allowed them to see the sky overhead.
From From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure by Archibald Webb
To him the houses, the willows, the obscure fields beyond, were apparently regarded not as brick residences, pollards, meadows; but as human dwellings in the abstract, vegetation, and the wide dark world.
From Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy
With its multitude of pollards, its desolate great fields, its chilling breaths, the countryside might have been Flanders.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
He did it with no help but in felling some pollards.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
We landed in a soiled meadow among some pollards, and there smoked a pipe in a flaw of fair weather.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
Willows are coppiced — cut regularly to within an inch or two of the base to flush fresh growth — or pollarded, with cuts made higher up on the trunk or branches.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
You can convert a topped tree into a pollarded tree, but this is viable only on young crape myrtles whose trunks are no more than three inches across, and preferably smaller.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
This black pollarded poplar in Spain is one of more than 4,700 in Aguilar del Alfambra, which houses possibly the largest concentration of the species in Europe.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2014
On most mornings in San Francisco’s Civic Center Plaza, elderly Asian women practice tai chi under the pollarded sycamore trees.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 23, 2014
By Rennes, the sun has dropped low over the horizon, and the smell of warm manure comes through the open windows, and lines of pollarded trees whisk past.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Mr Stephen explained his team used an "ancient form of pruning" known as pollarding - where the upper parts of the tree are removed.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024
Another option is to adopt a pruning regime known as pollarding, which maintains a tree at a given height permanently.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
After pollarding the oak produced "a good crop of acorns", said Mr Partridge.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2013
The son of one of them, a wood-cutter, was perched high above their heads, pollarding one of the churchyard elms.
From Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
Fortunately the bark of the limbs supplies the demand; many a veteran tree still suffers the pollarding process, serving one generation of schoolboys after another.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
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