If on a summer's morning you go and sit in the gateway about half-way up the hedge, partly hidden by a pollard ash and great hawthorn bushes, you will not have long to wait before you hear the pleasant calls of the greenfinches coming.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies
The country, too, is sufficiently well wooded; and apple and pear trees every where take the place of the pollard oaks and elms of our hedge-rows.
"Account of a Tour in Normandy, Vol. II. (of 2)"
Dawson Turner
She was commanded by Captain pollard.
"Fighting the Whales"
R.M. Ballantyne