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
The pollard heads are now the size of softballs, or larger.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
This permits the tree to develop knobbly structures called pollard heads, which form natural defenses against wound decay.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 17, 2015
An old pollard in Savernake Forest that could date back to Saxon times.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2014
The best “natural” sticks are those which when growing were themselves young trees, sprung up direct from seed or shoots—saplings, which are stronger and more pliant than those cut from a stole or pollard.
From The Gamekeeper At Home Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life by Richard Jefferies
Large districts are kept to about the size of hop-poles, growing on pollards three or four feet from the ground, by charcoal burners, who, in all instances, are smiths too.
From The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 by Horace Waller
By and by came a line of stunted pollards, a hamlet, and a little dreary cemetery.
From In the Days of My Youth by Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards
There are not only fine thriving oaks, throwing out their gigantic arms, but sturdy pollards without end, which seem to have set time and season and decay at defiance.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
Aye—on the day these pollards send forth shoots!
From Mr Punch's Model Music Hall Songs and Dramas Collected, Improved and Re-arranged from Punch by F. Anstey
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
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
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
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
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