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
In the meadows of the vale the waters of the same stream irrigate numerous scattered withy-beds, pollard willow trees, and tall willow poles growing thickly in the hedges by the brook.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
Their wooden shoes clattered softly in the powdery sand of the white road; when they had gone very far, their voices still rang loud and their figures looked like wandering pollards.
From The Path of Life by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos
I will,—the day these pollards send forth shoots!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, August 9, 1890 by Various
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 is indeed a boundary, but it is at a distance and concealed: it is the trout stream in the hollow far below, winding along the narrow valley, and hidden by osier-beds and willow pollards.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
Some of our common oaks bear their leaves green all winter; but they are generally pollards, and such as are shelter’d in warm corners and hedge rows.
From Sylva, Vol. 1 (of 2) Or A Discourse of Forest Trees by John Nisbet
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
Here, more than 20 have been pollarded every winter to reduce the canopy.
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
Fortunately the bark of the limbs supplies the demand; many a veteran tree still suffers the pollarding process, serving one generation of schoolboys after another.
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
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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