From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hoard \Hoard\, n.
See {Hoarding}, 2. --Smart.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hoard \Hoard\, n. [OE. hord, AS. hord; akin to OS. hord, G.
hort, Icel. hodd, Goth. huzd; prob. from the root of E. hide
to conceal, and of L. custos guard, E. custody. See {Hide} to
conceal.]
A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid
up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a
hoard of money.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hoard \Hoard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hoarded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hoarding}.] [AS. hordian.]
To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to
store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating;
as, to hoard grain.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Hoard \Hoard\, v. i.
To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.
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To hoard for those whom he did breed. --Spenser.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hoard
n 1: a secret store of valuables or money [syn: {hoard},
{cache}, {stash}]
v 1: save up as for future use [syn: {hoard}, {stash}, {cache},
{lay away}, {hive up}, {squirrel away}]
2: get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the
man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of
data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune" [syn:
{roll up}, {collect}, {accumulate}, {pile up}, {amass},
{compile}, {hoard}]
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