Meaning of Hoard | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A hidden supply or fund.
3. A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
4. A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
5. A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
6. A hoarding (billboard).

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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[…]”

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