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POLLARD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pollard mean? 

POLLARD (noun)
  The noun POLLARD has 2 senses:

1. a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliageplay

2. a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removedplay

  Familiarity information: POLLARD used as a noun is rare.


POLLARD (verb)
  The verb POLLARD has 1 sense:

1. convert into a pollardplay

  Familiarity information: POLLARD used as a verb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


POLLARD (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pollard" is a kind of...):

tree (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and angiosperms)

Derivation:

poll; pollard (convert into a pollard)


Sense 2

Meaning:

A usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed

Classified under:

Nouns denoting animals

Hypernyms ("pollard" is a kind of...):

ruminant (any of various cud-chewing hoofed mammals having a stomach divided into four (occasionally three) compartments)


POLLARD (verb)

 Conjugation: 
Present simple: I / you / we / they pollard  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation ... he / she / it pollards  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past simple: pollarded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
Past participle: pollarded  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation
-ing form: pollarding  Listen to US pronunciation  Listen to GB pronunciation


Sense 1

Meaning:

Convert into a pollard

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Synonyms:

poll; pollard

Context example:

pollard trees

Hypernyms (to "pollard" is one way to...):

clip; crop; cut back; dress; lop; prune; snip; trim (cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Sentence example:

They pollard the trees

Derivation:

pollard (a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage)


 Context examples 


I do not often walk this way now, said Emma, as they proceeded, but then there will be an inducement, and I shall gradually get intimately acquainted with all the hedges, gates, pools and pollards of this part of Highbury.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I passed it as negligently as I did the pollard willow opposite to it: I had no presentiment of what it would be to me; no inward warning that the arbitress of my life—my genius for good or evil—waited there in humble guise.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When I came to the stile, I stopped a minute, looked round and listened, with an idea that a horse's hoofs might ring on the causeway again, and that a rider in a cloak, and a Gytrash-like Newfoundland dog, might be again apparent: I saw only the hedge and a pollard willow before me, rising up still and straight to meet the moonbeams; I heard only the faintest waft of wind roaming fitful among the trees round Thornfield, a mile distant; and when I glanced down in the direction of the murmur, my eye, traversing the hall-front, caught a light kindling in a window: it reminded me that I was late, and I hurried on.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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