Polled, lopped; hornless; awnless.

In senses of the verb. Botany and Zoology: Truncate.

Of trees: Cut down to a stub; cut off near the ground; also, deprived of branches or pollarded.

Of a tree: pollarded. Also figurative.

Of a tree: that is a pollard (see B. 4), pollarded; cut back, lopped. Of wood: from a tree of this type. Cf. polled, adj.1 4.

Of or relating to the pruning of trees. Cf. putation, n. 1.

Having the top removed; of a tree: polled, pollarded; of hemp: see top, v.1 3.

That has been pollarded; cut back, lopped. Also figurative.

That lops or cuts away.

spurring-in, a mode of pruning fruit trees in which side-shoots are shortened to a spur likely to produce fruit. Also attributive.

that has undergone summer pruning.

Having no trunk; esp. without a body, or severed from the body, as a head.