pollard

Meanings

Plural: pollards

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
• A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
• A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
• A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.
• A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
• A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
• 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.

Verb

• convert into a pollard
  • "pollard trees"
• To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.

Synonyms

poll