pollards
- present tense form of pollard (3rd person singular).
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 Earnshaw, H. C. (Harold C.)
Clarissa was thus forced to saunter alone, and after she had got to the brook and the pollards, she sat down, and leant her arms on the bars of an old farm gate.
From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Tytler, Sarah
That is, their tops are cut off, which makes a large crop of young shoots spring out, giving a shock-headed effect which in gnarled old pollards by river-banks is picturesque enough.
From Miscellanea by Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty
They were drawing up in single file by the side of the road, close under the steep bank, pressing into it, in the dark shadow of the pollards.
From Angelot A Story of the First Empire by Price, Eleanor C. (Eleanor Catherine)
The only trees are dwarfish pollards, reduced to bare trunks with thin tufts of green atop by the practice of stripping off the sprouts every two or three years to make fodder for the goats.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 102, June, 1876 by Various
