pollard vs shape

pollard

noun
  • A hornless variety of domestic animal, as cattle or goats. 

  • A fine grade of bran including some flour. The fine cell layer between bran layers and endosperm, used for animal feed. 

  • A 13th-century European coin minted as a debased counterfeit of the sterling silver penny of Edward I of England, at first legally accepted as a halfpenny and then outlawed. 

  • A buck deer that has shed its antlers. 

  • A pruned tree; the wood of such trees. 

verb
  • To prune a tree heavily, cutting branches back to the trunk, so that it produces dense new growth. 

shape

noun
  • Form; formation. 

  • Condition of personal health, especially muscular health. 

  • In the Hack programming language, a group of data fields each of which has a name and a data type. 

  • A loaded die. 

  • A piece which has been roughly forged nearly to the form it will receive when completely forged or fitted. 

  • The appearance of something in terms of its arrangement in space, especially its outline; often a basic geometric two-dimensional figure. 

  • A rolled or hammered piece, such as a bar, beam, angle iron, etc., having a cross section different from merchant bar. 

  • The status or condition of something 

verb
  • To form or manipulate something into a certain shape. 

  • To create or make. 

  • To give something a shape and definition. 

  • To give influence to. 

  • To suit; to be adjusted or conformable. 

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