From .

• (British) IPA: /ˈpɒl.əd/
• (America) IPA: /ˈpɑ.lɚd/

pollard (plural pollards)

1. (often, attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
   • 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Third, page 116

     And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.

2. A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
3. A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.
4. (obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
5. (now Australian) A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
6. (numismatics, historical) 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.

   Coordinate terms: crockard, rosary, mitre, leonine, scalding, steeping, eagle

pollard (pollards, present participle pollarding; simple past and past participle pollarded)

1. (horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
   • 1910, Edward Morgan Forster, chapter 11, in Howards End:

     I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows.

• French: trogne

From Middle English poll or the given name Paul + the pejorative suffix -ard.

1. Surname.
2. A town in Escambia County, Alabama.
3. A minor city in Clay County, Arkansas.
4. An unincorporated community in Victoria, Rice County.