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
Try as he might, Dalroy, crouched behind a pollard oak, could not overhear the spy’s words.
From The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 by Louis Tracy
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
I will,—the day these pollards send forth shoots!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 by Various
With its multitude of pollards, its desolate great fields, its chilling breaths, the countryside might have been Flanders.
From The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday by Edmund Blunden
The trees which lined the road were much lower, being indeed mere pollards, and allowed them to see the sky overhead.
From From Powder Monkey to Admiral A Story of Naval Adventure by Archibald Webb
Some of the lesser birds have crept into the ivy around the elms, and which crowns the tops of the withy pollards.
From The Amateur Poacher by Richard Jefferies
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
One of the most conspicuous displays of pollarded Natchez crape myrtles is at the National Gallery of Art’s Sculpture Garden on the Mall.
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
The son of one of them, a wood-cutter, was perched high above their heads, pollarding one of the churchyard elms.
From Howards End by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
