The difference between Pollard and Steeping
When used as nouns, pollard means a pruned tree, whereas steeping means an instance of something being steeped.
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 Pollard and Steeping
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Pollard as a noun (often, attributive):
A pruned tree; the wood of such trees.
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Pollard as a noun:
A buck deer that has shed its antlers.
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Pollard as a noun:
A hornless variety of domestic animal, as cattle or goats.
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Pollard as a noun (obsolete, rare):
A European chub (Squalius cephalus, syn. Leuciscus cephalus), a kind of fish.
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Pollard as a noun (now, _, Australian):
A fine grade of bran including some flour.
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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.
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Pollard as a verb (horticulture):
To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth.
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Steeping as a verb:
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Steeping as a noun:
An instance of something being steeped; a wetting.
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Steeping as a noun (historical, numismatics):
A 13th-century coin circulated in Ireland as a debased sterling silver penny, outlawed under King Edward I.