verb
definition
To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
adjective
definition
(of a tree) That has been cut back heavily in order to produce dense new growth
Examples of pollarded in a Sentence
For twenty-two years I have lived amongst these pollarded trees, these rutty roads, beside these tangled thickets and streams along whose banks only children and sheep can pass.
These trees are usually found growing by rivers' banks or in other moist situations, and are generally pollarded for the purpose of securing a crop of straight poles.
Thus Crack willows are often pollarded to reduce the chances of splitting and to quickly provide more timber.
Along the edge of the reeds there is a line of pollarded willows which is regularly cut.
It most affects lush new growth and sucker growth and the young growth of pollarded planes is often affected.