Meaning of Pollard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
   attributive, often
2. A surname transferred from the nickname.
3. A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
4. A town in Escambia County, Alabama, United States.
5. A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.
6. A minor city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States.
7. A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
   obsolete, rare
8. An unincorporated community in Victoria Township, Rice County, Kansas, United States.
9. A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
   Australia
10. 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.
    historical

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Examples

“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 pollards – dotted oaks of vast growth – here and there a weird hollow thorn-tree – patches of fern and gorse.”

“Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.”

“Nothing was to be seen save flat meadows, cows feeding unconcernedly for the most part, and silvery pollard willows motionless in the warm sunlight.”

“And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.”

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