What does "hoard" mean?
Hoard: See Hoarding, 2. Smart.
Additional senses
- 2.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.
- 3.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.
- 4.To lay up a store or hoard, as of money. To hoard for those whom he did breed. Spenser.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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