Editing Pollarding (section)

==Origin and usage of term==
[[File:Beech pollard - Box Hill, Surrey.jpg|thumb|Ancient [[beech]] pollard, [[Box Hill, Surrey]], UK.{{refn|The tree marks the boundary between two parishes: [[Mickleham, Surrey|Mickleham]] (to the north) and [[Dorking]] (to the south).<ref name="Bannister6-7">{{Cite book |last=Bannister |first=NR |title=The Box Hill Book of Archaeology |publisher=Friends of Box Hill |year=1999 |isbn=0-9534430-1-9 |location=Dorking, Surrey |pages=6–7}}</ref>|group=note}}]]

"Poll" was originally a name for the top of the head, and "to poll" was a [[verb]] meaning 'to crop the hair'. This use was extended to similar treatment of the branches of trees and the horns of animals. A pollard simply meant someone or something that had been polled (similar to the formation of "drunkard" and "sluggard"); for example, a hornless [[ox]] or [[polled livestock]]. Later, the [[noun]] "pollard" came to be used as a verb: "pollarding". Pollarding has now largely replaced polling as the verb in the forestry sense. Pollard can also be used as an adjective: "pollard tree".<ref>Oxford English Dictionary 1933: Poll (''v''), Pollard (''v''), Pollard (''sb2'')</ref>