different between deer vs pollard

English

Etymology

From Middle English deere, dere, der, dier, deor (“small animal, deer”), from Old English d?or (“animal”), from Proto-West Germanic *deu?, from Proto-Germanic *deuz?, from Proto-Indo-European *d?ewsóm (“living thing”), from *d?éws (“breath”), full-grade derivative of *d?wes-.

Cognate with Scots dere, deir (“deer”), North Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), West Frisian dier (“animal, beast”), Dutch dier (“animal, beast”), German Low German Deer, Deert (“animal”), German Tier (“animal, beast”), Swedish djur (“animal, beast”), Norwegian dyr (“animal”), Icelandic dýr (“animal, beast”).

Related also to Albanian dash (“ram”) (possibly), Lithuanian da?sos (“upper air; heaven”), Lithuanian dùsti (“to sigh”), Russian ????? (dušá, “breath, spirit”), Lithuanian dv?sti (“to breathe, exhale”), Sanskrit ??????? (dhva?sati, “he falls to dust”).

For the semantic development compare Latin anim?lis (“animal”), from anima (“breath, spirit”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /d??/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /d??/
• (Scotland, some US) IPA^(key): /di??/
• Rhymes: -??(?)
• Homophones: dear, dir

Noun

deer (plural deer or (nonstandard) deers)

1. A ruminant mammal with antlers and hooves of the family Cervidae, or one of several similar animals from related families of the order Artiodactyla.
2. (in particular) One of the smaller animals of this family, distinguished from a moose or elk

3. The meat of such an animal; venison.

4. (obsolete, except in the phrase "small deer") Any animal, especially a quadrupedal mammal as opposed to a bird, fish, etc.
   • 1606, William Shakespeare, King Lear, Act III. IV

     But mice and rats and such small deer, have been Tom's food for seven long year.

Hyponyms

• buck, stag (male deer); doe, hind (female deer); fawn (young deer); hart (adult deer)

Derived terms

Descendants

• Sranan Tongo: dia

Translations

Anagrams

• Rede, Reed, de re, dere, dree, rede, reed

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?r

Verb

deer

1. first-person singular present indicative of deren
2. imperative of deren

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

• tëyer (Wiesemann spelling system)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?te??/

Etymology 1

From Middle High German and Old High German ir. Compare Luxembourgish dir.

Pronoun

deer

1. you (plural)

Inflection

Etymology 2

Pronoun

deer

1. stressed dative of du.

Inflection

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Limburgish

Etymology

From Middle Dutch dier, from Old Dutch dier, from Proto-Germanic *deuz?.

Noun

deer n

1. pet
2. (obsolete) beast, animal

Inflection

• The dative and accusative are obsolete nowadays; use the nominative instead.

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian d?r, th?r, from Proto-West Germanic *þ?r. More at there.

Adverb

deer

1. there

English

Etymology

From poll (“head, scalp”) +? -ard. The coin sense derives from the original penny's uncrowned obverse bust, as opposed to the laurel-wreathed form appearing on the rosary. The verb derives from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p?l.?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?.l?d/

Noun

pollard (plural pollards)

1. (often attributive) A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
   • 1869, Richard Doddridge Blackmore, Lorna Doone, Chapter 65,

     Only a little pollard hedge kept us from their blood-shot eyes.

   • 1903, Howard Pyle, The Story of King Arthur and His Knights, Part III, Chapter Third, page 116

     And at this place there was a long, straight causeway, with two long rows of pollard willows, one upon either hand.

2. A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
3. A hornless variety of domestic animal, as cattle or goats.
4. (obsolete, rare) A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
5. (now Australia) A fine grade of bran including some flour.
6. (numismatics, historical) A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.

   Coordinate terms: crockard, rosary, mitre, leonine, scalding, steeping, eagle

Verb

pollard (third-person singular simple present pollards, present participle pollarding, simple past and past participle pollarded)

1. (horticulture) To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
   • 1910, Edward Morgan Forster, Howards End, chapter 11:

     I didn't know one could pollard elms. I thought one only pollarded willows.

Translations

Further reading

• pollard on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• pollarding on Wikipedia.Wikipedia