pollard
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Mr McBride, who records ancient trees in Wales, said the oak had enormous cultural significance as it was a pollard - it had not grown in the field naturally.
From BBC ● Feb. 16, 2018
This permits the tree to develop knobbly structures called pollard heads, which form natural defenses against wound decay.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
The pollard heads are now the size of softballs, or larger.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
An old pollard in Savernake Forest that could date back to Saxon times.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2014
It came all back to him, and it had been over by the stunted pollard that he'd tripped up.
From Men, Women and Guns by H. C. (Herman Cyril) McNeile
Some of our common oaks bear their leaves green all winter; but they are generally pollards, and such as are shelter’d in warm corners and hedge rows.
From Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees by John Nisbet
On this side it is all canals, bogs, and pollards, and the eternal mud.
From Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 by Anonymous
There was a little stream, with pollards on both sides of it, that ran through green fields, and it made him happy, he knew not why, to wander along its banks.
From Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset (William Somerset) Maugham
They were drawing up in single file by the side of the road, close under the steep bank, pressing into it, in the dark shadow of the pollards.
From Angelot A Story of the First Empire by Eleanor C. (Eleanor Catherine) Price
The desolate flat marshes look still more weird by reason of the tall pollards that lean over them like spectres.
From Dickens-Land by E. W. Haslehust
It features green paint on a wall behind a cut-back, or pollarded, tree to look like foliage.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024
Willows are coppiced — cut regularly to within an inch or two of the base to flush fresh growth — or pollarded, with cuts made higher up on the trunk or branches.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 6, 2024
The trees are pollarded, the shutters are largely drawn, the police tend toward Inspector Clouseau look-alikes.
From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2021
In a pollarded tree, all the sprouts of the previous year are removed to their base each winter.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
They bounce through a string of small green towns where pollarded trees line sleepy canals.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
Mr Stephen explained his team used an "ancient form of pruning" known as pollarding - where the upper parts of the tree are removed.
From BBC ● Mar. 19, 2024
Another option is to adopt a pruning regime known as pollarding, which maintains a tree at a given height permanently.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
After pollarding the oak produced "a good crop of acorns", said Mr Partridge.
From BBC ● Dec. 28, 2013
Fortunately the bark of the limbs supplies the demand; many a veteran tree still suffers the pollarding process, serving one generation of schoolboys after another.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
But here it was, in this cavern, that he elaborated his system of reform, treating Christianity as a French peasant treats an oak tree, pollarding it, and lopping off every lateral, natural outgrowth.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
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