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pollard

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1540s, "de-horned animal," from poll (v.2) + -ard . In reference to polled trees, from 1610s.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context often attributive English) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees. 2 A buck deer that has shed his antlers 3 hornless varieties of domestic animals, as cattle or goats. 4 (context obsolete rare) The chub (''Leuciscus cephalus''), a kind of ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pollard \Pol"lard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pollarded ; p. pr. & vb. n. Pollarding .] To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll; as, to pollard willows. --Evelyn.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pollard is a surname that may refer to: Albert Pollard , British historian Alfred W. Pollard , (1859 – 1944), English bibliographer Amy Elizabeth Rosalie Pollard-Imrie , Franciscan mother abbess, niece and adopted daughter of William Imrie of Titanic fame. ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage a usually horned animal that as either shed its horns or had them removed v. convert into a pollard; "pollard trees" [syn: poll ]

Usage examples of pollard.

While lithotomies were normally completed in a matter of minutes, Pollard was on the table for an hour, with his knees at his neck and his hands bound to his feet while the clueless medic tried in vain to locate the stone.

But methinks I see the man for whom we wait coming down under the shadow of yonder line of pollard willows.

The morning was as fresh as a rose, and the four men came out of the house with Pollard to see El Sangre dancing under the saddle.

How sweet smells the hay down there in the flat meads through which the silvern river runs, lined on each side by bright green pollard trees!

The Swan tavern was not hard to find, for it had an open door from which slanted a broad band of light that illuminated a white swan on a scarlet ground on a board surmounting a pollarded willow.

Pollard knew she had to tell him about Alison Whitt and find out more about Maria Juarez.

He had pretended to listen as Pollard filled him in about Alison Whitt, but mostly he thought about Richie.

Pollard believed Alison Whitt was now the telling key and would still likely connect everything to Random.

American KH-11 Keyhole or Aquacade in orbit-that would be a huge accomplishment in espionage, a much bigger deal than Falcon, or Snowman, or Jonathan Pollard.

On the ancient hornbeams and beeches, strangely twisted after centuries of pollarding, buds were showing spring green, and nesting ducks quacked from the heathland ponds.

Loser Morant or Pollard or Jones or Smith or whatever new alias he picked out for himself.

Baron Snakefish, would be completely bewildered by what little trail was left by Pollard and his men.

Any men in the rooms who had the haziest knowledge of the little man about town, now swarmed small Everly with congratulations on his golden future, excepting Tisdale Pollard, M.

Mama was suspicious and Mama took time to check the records of one Morris Bird and Benjamin Pollard and the miner ship Trinidad to find out if Trinidad or either of her present crew had demonstrated any odd behaviors or made any odd investments in the recent past.

Unknown to Pollard, only a few weeks earlier, on September 29, the Nantucket whaleships Equator and Balaena stopped at the Hawaiian island of Oahu for the first time.