The difference between Crockard and Pollard
When used as nouns, crockard means a 13th-century coin minted in europe as a debased counterfeit copy of the sterling silver penny of king edward i, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed, whereas pollard means a pruned tree.
Pollard is also verb with the meaning: to prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
check bellow for the other definitions of Crockard and Pollard
-
Crockard as a noun (historical, numismatics):
A 13th-century coin minted in Europe as a debased counterfeit copy of the sterling silver penny of King Edward I, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
-
Pollard as a noun (often, attributive):
A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
-
Pollard as a noun:
A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
-
Pollard as a noun:
A hornless variety of domestic animal, as cattle or goats.
-
Pollard as a noun (obsolete, rare):
A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
-
Pollard as a noun (now, _, Australian):
A fine grade of bran including some flour.
-
Pollard as a noun (numismatics, historical):
A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of , at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.
-
Pollard as a verb (horticulture):
To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.