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pollard

UK/ˈpɒl.əd//ˈpɑ.lɚd/

pollard noun: a pruned tree; the wood of such trees.

pollard: a pruned tree; the wood of such trees
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Noun

pollard (plural pollards)

  1. (attributive, often) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
    • The enclosure was indeed little beyond that of a good-sized paddock – its boundaries were visible on every side – but swelling uplands, covered with massy foliage sloped down to its wild irregular turf soil – soil poor for pasturage, but pleasant to the eye; with dell and dingle, bosks of fantastic...1857, Pisistratus Caxton [pseudonym; Edward Bulwer-Lytton], chapter I, in What will He Do with It? (Collection of British Authors; CCCCVII), Tauchnitz edition, volume I, Leipzig: Bernhard Tauchnitz...
    • Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, “Chapter 65”, in Lorna Doone
  2. A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
  3. A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.
  4. (obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
  5. (Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
  6. (historical) A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.

Verb

pollard (third-person singular simple present pollards, present participle pollarding, simple past and past participle pollarded)

  1. To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
    • I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows.1910, Edward Morgan Forster, chapter 11, in Howards End
    • As well as coppicing, other trees were pollarded, or lopped about 6 ft up the trunk so that the resulting growth was beyond the reach of grazing animals. Pollarding lengthens the life of trees, and the frequently made estimate '1,000 years old' could well be true of some sturdy old trunks.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118

Proper noun capitalized: Pollard

Pollard

  1. A surname transferred from the nickname.
  2. A town in Escambia County, Alabama, United States.
  3. A minor city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States.
  4. An unincorporated community in Victoria Township, Rice County, Kansas, United States.

pollard meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

pollard in Hindi

पोलार्ड, पोलर्ड

pollard in Tamil

மோழை விலங்கு, தவிடு, கொம்பிலி

pollard in Marathi

पोलार्ड, पोलर्ड, पोल्लर्ड

pollard in Urdu

پولارڈ, پولرڈ
More languagesFewer languages
pollard in Bengali
পোলার্ড, পোল্লার্ড, পোলার্ডে
pollard in Telugu
పోలార్డ్, పొల్లార్డ్, పోల్లార్డ్
pollard in Malayalam
പോളാർഡ്, പൊളാർഡ്, പോളാർഡിലേക്ക്
pollard in Kannada
ಪೋಲಾರ್ಡ್, ಪೊಲ್ಲಾರ್ಡ್, ಪೊಲಾರ್ಡ್
pollard in Punjabi
ਪੋਲਾਰਡ, ਪੋਲਰਡ, ਪੋਲਾਰਡ ਤੱਕ
pollard in Gujarati
પોલાર્ડ, પોલર્ડ, પોલ્લર્ડ
pollard in Odia
ମୁଣ୍ଡ muṇḍa
pollard in Nepali
पोलार्ड, पोल्लार्ड, पोलार्ड गर्न

Examples of pollard in a sentence

  • Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 98:
  • And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Third, page 116
  • Cutting back to the same position annually is usually referred to as pollarding; cutting nearly to the ground is usually called stooling.2011, Edward F. Gilman, An Illustrated Guide to Pruning, 3rd edition, Clifton Park, N.Y.: Delmar, Cengage Learning, →ISBN, page 411:
  • I walked up the path, passing under a heavily pollarded oak.2019, Ian McEwan, Machines Like Me, Jonathan Cape, page 287:

Forms of pollard

Noun
pluralpollards
Verb
third-person singular presentpollards
present participlepollarding
past participlepollarded
pastpollarded

Plural of pollard: pollards

Origin of pollard

From Middle English poll (“head”) + the pejorative suffix -ard (“person characterized by or associated with something, often in a negative way”). The suffix has the same meaning as in drunkard and coward. When used as a verb, it is often used to mean a cut head, which originates from the terms usage in cattle, where "pollarded" is used to mean "headed," as opposed to horned.

From Middle English poll (“head”) + the pejorative suffix -ard (“person characterized by or associated with something, often in a negative way”). The suffix has the same meaning as in drunkard and coward.

Words formed from pollard

Words that rhyme with pollard

Questions about pollard

What does pollard mean?
Pollard means a pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
What is pollard in Hindi?
Pollard in Hindi is पोलार्ड, पोलर्ड. See Pollard meaning in Hindi.
How do you use pollard in a sentence?
Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.
What part of speech is pollard?
Pollard can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce pollard?
Pollard is pronounced /ˈpɒl.əd/ (UK).
What is the plural of pollard?
The plural of pollard is pollards.

Words near pollard in the dictionary

  1. Pollanen
  2. pollankan
  3. pollankans
  4. pollans
  5. pollarchy
  6. pollard
  7. Pollard script
  8. Pollard's rho algorithm
  9. pollarded
  10. pollarding
  11. pollards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pollard (page history and authors); Pollard (page history and authors); pollard (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pollard (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); pollard (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pollard (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pollard (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pollard (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pollard (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pollard (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pollard (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); pollard (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); ମୁଣ୍ଡ (Odia) (page history and authors); pollard (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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