Noun: bollard
| Singular | bollard |
| Plural | bollards |
Sample Sentences
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Near-synonym: towing bitt (often coinstantial)
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Today he had for bollard the unfinished monument half-erected to some all but forgotten anarchist. [1959, Mervyn Peake, Titus Alone:]
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He sat on a bollard, looking out across the water, a man more small and shabby than expected. [1965, Poul Anderson, The Star Fox:]
Nouns inflected like bollard
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English bollard, probably from Middle English bole (“tree trunk”), from Old Norse bolr (“stump, trunk”), equivalent to bole + -ard (pejorative or diminutive suffix). See: Middle English Nouns '
bole', Old Norse Nouns '
bolr'.
Verbs referencing "bollard"
German Nouns
Poller.