pollard

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A tree whose top branches have been cut back to the trunk so that it may produce a dense growth of new shoots.
2. n. An animal, such as an ox, goat, or sheep, that no longer has its horns.
3. v. To convert or make into a pollard.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A tree cut back nearly to the trunk, and thus caused to form a dense head of spreading branches, which are in turn cut for basket-making and fagotwood. Willows and poplars especially are so treated.
2. n. A clipped coin. The term was applied especially to the counterfeits of the English silver penny imported into England by foreign merchants in the reign of Edward I.
3. n. A polled animal, as a stag or an ox without horns.
4. n. Same as poll, 7.
5. n. A coarse product of wheat.
6. To make a pollard of; convert (a tree) into a pollard by cutting off the head.

Wiktionary

1. n. A tree that has been pruned by cutting its branches back close to the trunk to promote a more bushy growth of foliage.
2. n. An animal, such as cattle or deer, whose horns have been removed or shed.
3. n. The chub (fish), Leuciscus cephalus.
4. n. obsolete A mixture of bran and meal.
5. v. horticulture To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches.
2. n. obsolete A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit.
3. n. A fish, the chub.
4. n. A stag that has cast its antlers.
5. n. A hornless animal (cow or sheep).
6. v. To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. convert into a pollard
2. n. a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage
3. n. a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed