Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tree the tops and branches of which are cut off; a pollard.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A tree from which the branches have been cut; a pollard.

Etymologies

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Compare bole stem of a tree, and poll (transitive verb).

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Examples

  • With Kaine appointing himself to that seat and giving the gov to bolling.

    Waldo Jaquith - Governor Bolling: Good for Virginia Democrats. 2008

  • Economides in reply to a comment from binx bolling

    Hillary: Wright "Would Not Have Been My Pastor" 2009

  • The biggest is over eight feet in girth, with an enormous open hollowed bolling like a madly exaggerated cartoon of a Doric column.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • But they have two ways of pollarding, and the other is called trasmocho, in which the four-foot stumps of three or four of the original main lateral branches form a composite bolling.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • But they have two ways of pollarding, and the other is called trasmocho, in which the four-foot stumps of three or four of the original main lateral branches form a composite bolling.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • With its wide bolling and outstretched boughs, it is what the Basques would call a trasmocho tree.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • With its wide bolling and outstretched boughs, it is what the Basques would call a trasmocho tree.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • The biggest is over eight feet in girth, with an enormous open hollowed bolling like a madly exaggerated cartoon of a Doric column.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • These, the writer felt, should be shown whats what, presumably by being beaten, skinned alive, rold in bolling Tar and plac'd on a Rail, or in particularly pernicious cases, Hanged outright from there own Rooftrees.

    A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005

  • Whereas a senator bolling his legislative assistant is dynamite, people in private business can and do screw pretty much whomever they like, and absolutely nobody in that community seems to think much about it.

    Mother Of Storms Barnes, John, 1957- 1994

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