Pollard

Meaning

1. A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
2. A minor city in Clay County, Arkansas, United States.
3. A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
4. An unincorporated community in Victoria Township, Rice County, Kansas, United States.
5. A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
6. A town in Escambia County, Alabama, United States.
7. A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
8. To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
9. A surname transferred from the nickname.
10. A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed.
11. A hornless variety of domestic animal, such as cattle or goats.

Etymology / origin

From Middle English poll (“head”) + the pejorative suffix -ard (“person characterized by or associated with something, often in a negative way”). The suffix has the same meaning as in drunkard and coward.

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