pollard
noun
a tree cut back nearly to the trunk, so as to produce a dense mass of branches.
pollards
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present tense formof pollard (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Nothing but dreary dykes, muddy and straight, guarded by the ghosts of suicidal pollards, and by rows of dreary and desolate mills, occur to break the blank grey monotony of the landscape.
From St. Winifred's, or The World of School by H. C. (Harold C.) Earnshaw
Their wooden shoes clattered softly in the powdery sand of the white road; when they had gone very far, their voices still rang loud and their figures looked like wandering pollards.
From The Path of Life by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
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
There was one row of pollards where they always began laying first.
From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies
There is indeed a boundary, but it is at a distance and concealed: it is the trout stream in the hollow far below, winding along the narrow valley, and hidden by osier-beds and willow pollards.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
