different between poulard vs pollard

English

Etymology

From French poularde, from poule (“hen”) + -ard.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /pu?l??d/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?pu?l??d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d (General American pronunciation)

Noun

poulard (countable and uncountable, plural poulards)

1. (countable) A young spayed hen.
2. (countable, uncountable) Poulard wheat.

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.

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Further reading

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