Moulder

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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