What is "pollards"

Usage examples of "pollards".

He of course was not a blood rela­tive to the Pollards, but they were part of his extended family.

Why, I know’d you at Gargery’s when you was so small a wolf that I could have took your weazen betwixt this finger and thumb and chucked you away dead (as I’d thoughts o’ doing, odd times, when I see you loitering amongst the pollards on a Sunday), and you hadn’t found no uncles then.

Hundreds of studies of weavers and their wives, of looms, and peasants in the field, of the pollards at the bottom of the vicarage garden, and the old church tower.

We landed in a soiled meadow among some pollards, and there smoked a pipe in a flaw of fair weather.