Meaning

A hidden supply or fund..

Definitions by Sense

1. A hidden supply or fund.
2. (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
3. (transitive) To amass, usually for one's own private collection.
4. (transitive) To save or reserve in one's mind for a future need or use.
5. A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
6. A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
7. A hoarding (billboard).
8. Misspelling of horde.

Example Sentences

a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money

Be ye not willing to hoard to you gold hoards on earth, where rust and moth fortake it, and where thieves delve it and forsteal, […]

Occasionally Scots and Irish coins are also found. The gold hoards consist entirely of crown gold unites, half unites and quarter unites from the reigns of James I and Charles I.

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; […]

When we have new perception we shall gladly disburthen the memory of the hoarded treasures as old rubbish.

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[…]

Word Forms

• hoards
• hoarding
• hoarded

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