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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
pollard . - adjective of a tree That has been cut back heavily in order to produce dense new growth
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Examples
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'pollarded' - or have their tops cut off - to maintain their long term safety and sustainability.
icCheshireOnline 2010
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'pollarded' - or have their tops cut off - to maintain their long term safety and sustainability.
icCheshireOnline 2010
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'pollarded' - or have their tops cut off - to maintain their long term safety and sustainability.
icCheshireOnline 2010
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'pollarded' - or have their tops cut off - to maintain their long term safety and sustainability.
icCheshireOnline 2010
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We went through country characteristic of the levels: narrow causeways lined by pollarded willow, where banks protect the roadway from the often swollen rhynes.
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The new growth of pollarded curly or corkscrew willow, Salix matsudana is pleasing against the dark green background of the Hemlocks.
Twiggy « Fairegarden 2010
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We walked down the quaint village street with a row of pollarded elms on each side of it.
Chennai 2010
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Three pollarded plane trees rose above us, each with a pair of limbs ending in malformed knobs that looked like many-knuckled fists against the sky.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Three pollarded plane trees rose above us, each with a pair of limbs ending in malformed knobs that looked like many-knuckled fists against the sky.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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Three pollarded plane trees rose above us, each with a pair of limbs ending in malformed knobs that looked like many-knuckled fists against the sky.
Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009
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