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
Then he slipped back against the pollard, the two ends grasped in his right hand....
From Men, Women and Guns by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)
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 Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
Smokeless chimney-stacks deleted whole pages of stars, but put me more in mind of pollards rising out of these rigid valleys, and sprouting with telephone wires that interlaced for foliage.
From Mr. Justice Raffles by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
The line dwindled as the shorn pollards gave up their withes to bind the vines to the dwarf maples.
From The Collectors by Mather, Frank Jewett
To him the houses, the willows, the obscure fields beyond, were apparently regarded not as brick residences, pollards, meadows; but as human dwellings in the abstract, vegetation, and the wide dark world.
From Jude the Obscure by Hardy, Thomas
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 Jefferies, Richard
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
This black pollarded poplar in Spain is one of more than 4,700 in Aguilar del Alfambra, which houses possibly the largest concentration of the species in Europe.
From BBC ● Dec. 31, 2014
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
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 Forster, E. M. (Edward Morgan)
By cutting off the tops or pollarding such trees, a very great number of adventitious branches can be made to grow.
From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by Apgar, A. C. (Austin Craig)
