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Pollard

Pollard \Pol"lard\, n. [From Poll the head.]

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

  2. A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit. [Obs.]
    --Camden.

  3. (Zo["o]l.)

    1. A fish, the chub.

    2. A stag that has cast its antlers.

    3. A hornless animal (cow or sheep).

Pollard

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
pollard

1540s, "de-horned animal," from poll (v.2) + -ard. In reference to polled trees, from 1610s.

Wiktionary
pollard

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 fish. 5 (context now Australian English) A fine grade of bran including some flour. 6 (context currency historical) 13th-century European coins minted as debased counterfeits of the sterling silver penny of Edward I, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed. vb. (context horticulture English) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.

WordNet
pollard
  1. n. a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage

  2. a usually horned animal that as either shed its horns or had them removed

  3. v. convert into a pollard; "pollard trees" [syn: poll]

Gazetteer
Pollard, AR -- U.S. town in Arkansas
Population (2000): 240
Housing Units (2000): 105
Land area (2000): 0.293056 sq. miles (0.759011 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.293056 sq. miles (0.759011 sq. km)
FIPS code: 56600
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 36.430686 N, 90.268820 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72456
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Pollard, AR
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Pollard, AL -- U.S. town in Alabama
Population (2000): 120
Housing Units (2000): 64
Land area (2000): 1.114836 sq. miles (2.887413 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.114836 sq. miles (2.887413 sq. km)
FIPS code: 61536
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 31.027340 N, 87.172342 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Pollard

Pollard ("bare-headed one") may refer to:

  • Pollard (surname), a list of people named "Pollard"
    • Jonathan Jay Pollard, American convicted of passing classified information to Israel while working as a civilian intelligence analyst
    • Red Pollard, John M., a Canadian racing jockey that rode Seabiscuit to victory in the 1940 Santa Anita Handicap
  • Several algorithms created by British mathematician John Pollard:
    • Pollard's p − 1 algorithm
    • Pollard's kangaroo algorithm
    • Pollard's rho algorithm
  • Pollard, Alabama, a town in the United States
  • Pollard, a novel by Laura Beatty
  • Pollard, a tree or animal which has been polled (had its branches, horns or antlers removed):
    • Pollard, a tree affected by pollarding, a method for shaping trees, cropping the branches above head-height
    • Pollard or polled livestock, hornless livestock of normally-horned species
    • Pollard, a deer which has cast its antlers
  • Pollard, the European chub (Squalius cephalus), a freshwater fish of the family Cyprinidae
  • Pollard, a mixture of fine bran and a small amount of flour
  • Pollard script, a writing system devised in 1905 for the A-Hmao language
  • Pollard, a medieval coin made in Europe in imitation of the English penny, outlawed under Edward I
Pollard (novel)

Pollard is the debut novel of Laura Beatty, first published in hardback in 2008 by Chatto & Windus and the following year in paperback by Vintage Books. This was her first novel though she had previously written biographies. It won the Authors' Club First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the Ondaatje Prize

Pollard (surname)

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. As heiress of his fortune she became the builder of St Mary of the Angels RC church, Liverpool.
  • Bernard Pollard, a NFL safety for the Tennessee Titans
  • Carl Pollard, American linguist
  • Charles Pollard (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1910s, 20s and '30s for Great Britain, and Wakefield Trinity
  • Chris Pollard, American college baseball coach
  • Dick Pollard, England Test cricketer
  • Edward A. Pollard, author of The Lost Cause and newspaperman with the Richmond Examiner 1832-1872
  • Ernest C. Pollard, atomic physicist and biophysicist, son of Sam Pollard
  • Ernest Pollard (rugby league), rugby league footballer of the 1930s for Great Britain, England, Wakefield Trinity, and Bradford Northern
  • Eve Pollard (born 1945), British journalist
  • George Pollard (disambiguation), several people
  • Handré Pollard (born 11 March 1994), South African rugby union player playing for the Blue Bulls in the Super Rugby championship
  • Harry Pollard (disambiguation), several people
  • H. B. Pollard, first postmaster of Ashland, Kentucky
  • Hugh Pollard (intelligence officer), British officer and author on small arms
  • James Pollard, a British painter
  • John Pollard (disambiguation), several people
  • Jonathan Pollard, a former civilian intelligence analyst who was convicted of spying for Israel
  • Jon Pollard (actor), Australian actor in Doom Runners (1997)
  • Justin Pollard, historian and writer
  • J. W. H. Pollard (1872–1957), American college sports coach
  • Kieron Pollard, West Indies cricketer
  • Lewis Pollard (judge) (c.1465-1526)
  • Michael J. Pollard, American actor
  • Nick Pollard, British journalist
  • Odell Pollard, Arkansas politician
  • Red Pollard (1909–1981), Canadian jockey most famous as the regular rider of Seabiscuit
  • Robert Pollard, lead singer of Guided by Voices
  • Roy Pollard, rugby league footballer of the 1940s and '50s for Great Britain, England, and Dewsbury
  • Sam Pollard, Bible Christian Church missionary to China and inventor of the "Pollard script"
  • Scot Pollard, former American basketball player and current NBA TV analyst
  • Stu Pollard, American film producer, writer and director
  • Su Pollard, English comedy actress who starred in the BBC TV sitcom Hi-de-Hi!
  • Thomas Pollard, English Renaissance actor
  • Thomas D. Pollard, American biologist
  • Tiffany Pollard, American reality television star
  • Timothy Pollard, American basketball player
  • Tony Pollard, British battlefield archaeologist and television presenter
  • Walter Pollard (1906–1945), English footballer with Burnley, West Ham, Fulham and Southampton
  • William Pollard, British Quaker minister
  • William G. Pollard (d. 1989), American physicist

Fictional characters

  • Charley Pollard, a character from the Big Finish Doctor Who releases
  • Eric Pollard, a character from British soap opera Emmerdale
  • Vicky Pollard, a character from British comedy show Little Britain

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.