Pollard

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

Equivalents

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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