Meaning of Moulder | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.
   UK, archaic
3. Alternative spelling of mulder (“one or more crumbled pieces of food, especially oatcake; a crumb or crumbs”).
   Ireland, Orkney, Shetland, UK, alt-of, alternative, countable, uncountable
4. Synonym of mould (“a natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air”)
   UK, obsolete, rare, uncountable
5. A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
   UK, broadly
6. Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.
   UK, obsolete, uncountable
7. An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.
   UK, broadly
8. A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper.
   UK, broadly, figuratively
9. A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker.
   UK

Equivalents

Examples

“It was, however, most interesting work, and the moulders themselves were a decent crowd, never tired of making jokes about themselves such as the hoary one that moulders did not live long, which however ran counter to the other one that no germs could live in a foundry—the atmosphere was too foul.”

“[B]y the ſenſe of our ayrie bodies we haue a more refined faculty of forſeeing, than men poſſibly can haue, that are chained to ſuch heauie earthlie moulder; […]”

“[G]reat danger is to be apprehended to the health of the crews, and damage to the provisions and stores on board, from the damp state in which such ships must be in, for a long time after being taken out of the water. Houses, built with stone or mortar, saturated with salt-water, will continue damp for years; and, without almost constant fires, furniture, linen, silks, &c. &c. will be continually damaging, from moulder, rust, and mildew.”

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