Definition of "pollarding" [pollarding]

• Present participle of pollard. (verb)

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• "The first sign of tree vandalism, also known as pollarding, has been seen already, beginning on a short stretch of Tumanian Street alongside the “Brambion” building on the Abovyan Street corner."
• "But I worry that its twenty poles are due for pollarding before they split the tree in two in the next big gale, and who will cut them now?"
• "But already, as pollarding goes out of fashion, desmocho has been lost from the language and all pollards are called trasmocho."