pollarding

• Apparently RBC's highways department asked the landowners to pollard the tree after a complaint about TV reception, which led to the owners deciding to fell it because of the high cost of pollarding. —  getreading - Reading Post - RSS feed
• The city council has decided not to continue pollarding the willows on land adjacent to Cripley Meadow Allotments today, but refused to rule out carrying out further work at a later date.
• It said the area would become even more wildlife-friendly in the future and the pollarding
• He swore that the men who had jeered at him should be dealt with like a tree whose branches are cut off with the pollarding-knife. —  William the Conqueror
• The son of one of them, a wood-cutter, was perched high above their heads, pollarding one of the churchyard elms. —  Howards End

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