[
UK
/pˈɒlɑːd/
]
[ US /ˈpɑɫɝd/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑɫɝd/ ]
NOUN
- a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage
- a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed
VERB
-
convert into a pollard
pollard trees
How To Use pollard In A Sentence
- Its interest is that within it survive all the elements of a medieval forest: great timber trees, coppice woods, pollards, scrub, grassland and fen, deer and cattle, and a rabbit warren.
- Dave Pollard elucidates the difference between search and research - you'll be expert when you finish this piece.
- Rows of pollarded trees (relics from the car park) structure and animate the landscape.
- Like other rail bosses, Mr Pollard is touchy about accusations that not enough has been done to improve rail safety in the year since Paddington.
- Sadly this lawned area with its avenue of pollarded lime trees is split in half by the main Swindon-Salisbury road.
- The Israeli leader admitted that Pollard, a former U.S. naval intelligence analyst serving a life sentence for espionage, "was acting as an agent of the Israeli government.
- He always had bran, pollard, hay and chaff on hand and would pay the highest prices for dairy produce.
- He always had bran, pollard, hay and chaff on hand and would pay the highest prices for dairy produce.
- Chris Travers: A pollard is a “beheaded” tree (“pollard” meaning “beheaded”), i.e. a tree which was the upper branches and trunk cut off so that it produces a large quantity of upright shoots. The Volokh Conspiracy » To Meld — What Does “Meld” Mean?
- Sadly this lawned area with its avenue of pollarded lime trees is split in half by the main Swindon-Salisbury road.
