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Pollard

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 2:44 pm
by 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.

Re: Pollard

Posted: Mon Jan 23, 2006 5:35 pm
by 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). :wink:

Other famous and infamous Pollards:

Michael J.

A Spy

And others

Poll would make a good GWOTD, too.

Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 6:05 am
by Grogie
Wonderful information Larry. Thanks.