different between polled vs nott

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /p??ld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /po?ld/
• Rhymes: -??ld

Verb

polled

1. simple past tense and past participle of poll

Adjective

polled (not comparable)

1. Lopped; said of trees having their tops cut off.
2. Cropped; bald.

   the polled bachelor

3. Without horns; said of livestock that normally have horns, but which have been bred to be hornless, or which have been dehorned.

English

Alternative forms

• not

Etymology

From Old English hnot, of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /n?t/

Adjective

nott (comparative more nott, superlative most nott)

1. (obsolete) Bald.
2. (now Britain dialect, Newfoundland) Of an animal: having no horns; polled.
   • 1850, "On the Farming of Somerset", Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, vol. XI, p. 679:

     For these and other reasons farmers who occupy good land in the vale with their hill farms are getting tired of the horned sheep, and use their hill farms only as summering-ground for nott sheep and bullocks.

   • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D'Urbervilles:

     Do ye know that riddle about the nott cows, Jonathan? Why do nott cows give less milk in a year than horned?

Verb

nott (third-person singular simple present notts, present participle notting, simple past and past participle notted)

1. (obsolete) To shear.
   • 1575, John Stow, Summarie of Englyshe Chronicles

     he caused his owne head to bee poiled, and from thencefoorthe his bearde to bee notted, and no more shaven.