EGAVE

pollard

About 1.22 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
  2. noun A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
  3. noun A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.
  4. noun A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
  5. noun A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
  6. noun A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
  7. verb To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.

Similar words

poll willows lop crop shear clip trim prune truncate cutback

Often followed by

and was et had in willows to of has

Word family

pollarded pollarding pollards

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