pollard

• Aldington, with its quiet apple orchards and the “island” and shrubberies below my garden, was a happy refuge for birds of all kinds, and the old pollard-willow heads a favourite nesting-place. —  Grain and Chaff from an English Manor
• I though a few defensive players had moments: pat thomas, bernard pollard, and carr did okay considering they were throwing his way all afternoon. —  Arrowhead Pride
• Upon some rivers the willow would contest the position, perhaps, but Fate demands that it should run to pollard, and so get too high up in the world to be a close companion to man We always make friends with the somewhat prosaic and even sombre alder, and, in return, it always has something to show us. —  Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler
• His head suddenly parted the water beneath the old pollard, and he swam slowly across the stream, craning his neck before him. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
• The pollard was inwardly rotten to the core--a snug retreat for snakes, to which the only entrance was a water-way The dormouse came from halfway up the hazel, and the wood-mouse came from its roots. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character

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