The difference between Pollard and Scalding

When used as nouns, pollard means a pruned tree, whereas scalding means an instance of scalding: a burn.

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.

Scalding is also adjective with the meaning: hot enough to burn.

check bellow for the other definitions of Pollard and Scalding

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.

Scalding as a noun (numismatics, historical):

, the form circulated by Stephen de Fulbourn in Ireland as a debased form of the sterling silver penny, outlawed under Edward I.