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Dec 12, 2008
This week's themeWords related to the shaping of trees This week's words espalier topiary pleach bonsai pollard Pollards
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PRONUNCIATION:
(POL-uhrd)
MEANING:
noun:
1. A tree cut back to the trunk to encourage a dense growth of new branches.
2. An animal that has its horns or antlers removed or has shed them.verb tr.: To cut off the top of a tree. ETYMOLOGY:
From Middle English polle (head).
USAGE:
"'Here because the sidewalks are so narrow, we pollard mulberry trees
to keep them small so they don't obstruct passing buses,' Dimitris
Papademas said."Yvette Varvaressou; Pollarding and Pruning of Trees is an Ancient But Little Understood Art; Kathimerini (Athens, Greece); Jan 31, 2003. See more usage examples of pollard in Vocabulary.com's dictionary. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Who overcomes by force hath overcome but half his foe. -John Milton, poet (1608-1674)
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