name
Meaning 1
A surname transferred from the nickname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
Pollard
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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UK: /ˈpɒl.əd/
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US: /ˈpɑ.lɚd/
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rhymes with -ɒlə(ɹ)d
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CMU ARPABET: P AA1 L ER0 D Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A town in Escambia County, Alabama, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 3
A minor city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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name
Meaning 4
An unincorporated community in Victoria Township, Rice County, Kansas, United States.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 5
A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: attributive, often
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noun
Meaning 6
A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 7
A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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noun
Meaning 8
A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete, rare
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noun
Meaning 9
A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Australia
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noun
Meaning 10
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: historical
Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, numismatics
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verb
Meaning 11
To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: agriculture, business, horticulture, lifestyle
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noun
Meaning 12
a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: ruminant
noun
Meaning 13
a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: tree
verb
Meaning 14
convert into a pollard
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- pollard trees
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: poll
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: snip, clip, crop, trim, lop, dress, prune, cut back
History
Etymology
From Middle English poll (“head”) + the pejorative suffix -ard (“person characterized by or associated with something, often in a negative way”). The suffix has the same meaning as in drunkard and coward.
From Middle English poll (“head”) + the pejorative suffix -ard (“person characterized by or associated with something, often in a negative way”). The suffix has the same meaning as in drunkard and coward. When used as a verb, it is often used to mean a cut head, which originates from the terms usage in cattle, where "pollarded" is used to mean "headed," as opposed to horned.
Across languages
Translations
15 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Finnish: karsittu puu — pruned tree
- Finnish: nupopää — hornless variety of domestic animal
- Finnish: nutipää — hornless variety of domestic animal
- Bulgarian: кастря (kastrja) — to prune
- Catalan: escapçar — to prune
- Finnish: karsia — to prune
- Finnish: latvoa — to prune
- French: trogne — to prune
- Galician: fradar — to prune
- Galician: demoucar — to prune
- Galician: decotar — to prune
- Galician: cepar — to prune
- Macedonian: кастри (kastri) — to prune
- Turkish: budamak — to prune
- Ottoman Turkish: بودامق (budamak) — to prune
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