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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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
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
Aye—on the day these pollards send forth shoots!
From Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by F. Anstey
There was a little stream, with pollards on both sides of it, that ran through green fields, and it made him happy, he knew not why, to wander along its banks.
From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
On this side it is all canals, bogs, and pollards, and the eternal mud.
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
