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/pˈɑlərd/ Listen

noun

Pollard n.

A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches.

A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. (Obs.)

(Zool.)

(a)

A fish, the chub.

(b)

A stag that has cast its antlers.

(c)

A hornless animal (cow or sheep).

verb

Pollard v. t. (past & past part. pollarded; pres. part. pollarding) To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Pollard" Quotes from Famous Books

... the evils arising from the equivoque between faith and intellectual satisfaction or insight. The root of faith is in the will. Faith is an oak that may be a pollard, and ...

— Coleridge's Literary Remains, Volume 4. • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

... of crimson silk hose, which thou knowest I have worn only thirteen months, taking heed that the heel-piece be put into good and sufficient restoration, at my sole charges, by the Italian woman nigh the pollard ...

— Imaginary Conversations and Poems - A Selection • Walter Savage Landor

... about taking his chair. "They're all mine, thanks!" he said with a smile, "but I claim no privileges." Someone gave a faint whistle at this, and Father Payne, turning his eyes but not his head towards the young man who had uttered the sound, said: "All right, Pollard, if you are going to be mutinous, we shall have a little business to transact together, as Mr. Squeers said." "Oh, I'm not mutinous, sir," said the young man—"I'm quite submissive—I was just betrayed into it by amazement!" "You shouldn't get into the habit of thinking ...

— Father Payne • Arthur Christopher Benson

... osier plantations give employment to a considerable number of persons. The tall poles are made into posts and rails; the trunks of the pollard trees when thrown are cut into small timber that serves many minor purposes; the brushwood or tops that are cut every now and then make thatching sticks and faggots; sometimes hedges are made of a kind of willow wicker-work for enclosing gardens. ...

— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies

... encouraged to expect that they should have privileges which would make their residence desirable. The editor wished a few dozen Trinidad planters would come to that city on the same business and on a much larger scale.[24] N.W. Pollard, agent of the Government of Trinidad, came to Baltimore in 1851 to make his appeal for emigrants, offering to pay all expenses.[25] At a meeting held in Baltimore, in 1852, the parents of Mr. Stanbury Boyce, ...

— A Century of Negro Migration • Carter G. Woodson

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