How to pronounce pollard

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What pollard means

verb

To cut a tree back to its trunk so it sprouts thick new shoots

In a sentence: Every few years, the gardeners pollard the old willows along the river.

Where it comes from: It comes from poll, an old word for head, plus -ard. A tree cut this way has its head cut back.

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