Pollard

[Grogie]

I learned this very interesting word today in the ''Word For The Wise'' section at m-w.com. It can mean, respectively, a hornless animal, a type of coarse wheat bran or a coin of foreign origin.

[Stargzer]

I learned this very interesting word today in the ''Word For The Wise'' section at m-w.com. It can mean, respectively, a hornless animal, a type of coarse wheat bran or a coin of foreign origin.

Pollard
NOUN: 1. A tree whose top branches have been cut back to the trunk so that it may produce a dense growth of new shoots. 2. An animal, such as an ox, goat, or sheep, that no longer has its horns.
TRANSITIVE VERB: Inflected forms: pol·lard·ed, pol·lard·ing, pol·lards
To convert or make into a pollard.
ETYMOLOGY: From poll.

Actually that would be not just a hornless animal but a de-horned animal. A rabbit, for instance, could not be a pollard, unless one counts its relative, the jackalope (Lepus temperamentalis).

Other famous and infamous Pollards:

Michael J.

A Spy

And others

Poll would make a good GWOTD, too.

[Grogie]

Wonderful information Larry. Thanks.