pollard
verb [usually passive] (specialist)Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they pollard | |
| he / she / it pollards | |
| past simple pollarded | |
| past participle pollarded | |
| -ing form pollarding |
- pollard something
to cut off the branches at the top of a tree so that the lower branches will grow more thickly 给（树木）去顶；截梢 Word Originearly 17th cent.: from the verb poll + -ard.