pollard

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A tree whose top branches have been cut back to the trunk so that it may produce a dense growth of new shoots.
• noun An animal, such as an ox, goat, or sheep, that no longer has its horns.
• transitive verb To convert or make into a pollard.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A tree cut back nearly to the trunk, and thus caused to form a dense head of spreading branches, which are in turn cut for basket-making and fagotwood. Willows and poplars especially are so treated.
• noun A clipped coin.
• noun A polled animal, as a stag or an ox without horns.
• noun Same as poll, 7.
• noun A coarse product of wheat.
• To make a pollard of; convert (a tree) into a pollard by cutting off the head.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• transitive verb To lop the tops of, as trees; to poll.
• noun A tree having its top cut off at some height above the ground, that may throw out branches.
• noun obsolete A clipped coin; also, a counterfeit.
• noun A fish, the chub.
• noun A stag that has cast its antlers.
• noun A hornless animal (cow or sheep).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A tree that has been pruned by cutting its branches back close to the trunk to promote a more bushy growth of foliage.
• noun An animal, such as cattle or deer, whose horns have been removed or shed.
• noun The chub (fish), Leuciscus cephalus.
• noun obsolete A mixture of bran and meal.
• verb horticulture To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb convert into a pollard
• noun a tree with limbs cut back to promote a more bushy growth of foliage
• noun a usually horned animal that has either shed its horns or had them removed