Middle English Dictionary Entry
pollard n.
Entry Info
| Forms | pollard n. |
| Etymology | AF pollard & AL pollardus. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An inferior foreign coin, generally worth an English halfpenny.
Associated quotations
- [ (1299) Statutes Realm1.131 : Nostre Roiaume e les autres terres de nostre seignurie sunt replenis de diverse mauveises monees, que sunt appelez 'Pollardz' et 'Crokardz'. ]
- [ ?a1325(1299) Liber Cust.Lond.in RS 12.2187 : Pur ceo qe ordene est..qe la mauveise moneie, qe hom apele 'crocard' e 'pollard'..ne courge en nostre dit reiaume. ]
- (a1387) Trev.Higd.(StJ-C H.1)8.289 : Kyng Edward dampned..fals money þat was slyliche i-brouȝt up; men cleped þe money pollardes [L pollardas], crocardes..and were putte forþ..priveliche in stede of sterlynges; First þey made oon of hem worþ an half peny, and þan he fordede hem all out.