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Hoard
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 A hidden supply or fund.
"a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money"
- 2 A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
- 3 Misspelling of horde. alt-of, misspelling
- 4 a secret store of valuables or money wordnet
- 5 A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
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- 6 A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
"Eventually, the wooden hoards gave way to similar stone constructions called bretèches. These served exactly the same purpose as the hoard, sometimes being built over the same corbel brackets that had once supported hoards[…]"
- 7 A hoarding (billboard).
- 1 To amass, usually for one's own private collection. transitive
"The days have vanish’d, tone and tint, And yet perhaps the hoarding sense Gives out at times (he knows not whence) A little flash, a mystic hint; […]"
- 2 get or gather together wordnet
- 3 To save or reserve in one's mind for a future need or use. transitive
- 4 save up as for future use wordnet
Etymology
From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀd, from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), of unknown origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *kewdʰ- (“to conceal, hide”), thus meaning “something hidden”. Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”). For the meaning development compare Russian сокро́вище (sokróvišče, “treasure”) related to Russian скрыва́ть (skryvátʹ, “to hide, to conceal”).
From Middle English horden, from Old English hordian, from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀdōn.
From Middle English hord, whorde, from Anglo-Norman hurde and Old French hourd, hourt (“barrier, palisade”), from Middle Dutch horde, from Old Dutch *hurd, from Proto-West Germanic *hurdi (“wickerwork, braiding of branches, hurdle, scaffolding, military company”).
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