The difference between Pollard and Rosary

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.

Rosary as a noun:

Prayer beads, a string of beads used to keep track of repetitions in prayer, particularly in the Roman Catholic Marian prayer "Hail Mary" (Ave Maria)

Rosary as a noun:

A Roman Catholic devotion involving the repetition of a series of Marian prayers, usually 5, 15, or 20 decades of "Hail Marys", each decade beginning with "Our Father" and ending with "Glory Be to the Father", but sometimes including other Roman Catholic, Anglican, or Lutheran prayers.

Rosary as a noun:

A series or collection of thoughts, literary pieces, etc. intended for similar contemplation.

Rosary as a noun (historical, _, numismatics):

A 13th-century coin minted in Europe as a counterfeit debased form of the sterling silver penny of , at first accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed.

Rosary as a noun:

A rose garden.