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Though so swift, the kingfisher is comparatively easy to shoot, because he flies as straight as an arrow; and if you can get clear of bushes or willow pollards he may be dropped without trouble.

From Wild Life in a Southern County by Jefferies, Richard

There was one row of pollards where they always began laying first.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Jefferies, Richard

The stumps are called "pollards" and the trees "pollarded willows" whose discouraging task has been to grow a yearly crop of withes for the basket-makers; yet each spring finds them bristling with the new growth.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen

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

The desolate flat marshes look still more weird by reason of the tall pollards that lean over them like spectres.

From Dickens-Land by Haslehust, E. W.