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Etymology 1

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From Middle English hord, from Old English hord (“an accumulation of valuable objects cached for preservation or future use; treasure; hoard”), from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀd, from Proto-Germanic *huzdą (“treasure; hoard”), of unknown origin, but possibly derived from Proto-Indo-European *kewdʰ- (“to conceal, hide”), thus meaning “something hidden”.[1] Cognate with German Hort (“hoard; refuge”), Icelandic hodd (“treasure”), Latin cū̆stōs (“guard; keeper”). For the meaning development compare Russian сокро́вище (sokróvišče, “treasure”) related to Russian скрыва́ть (skryvátʹ, “to hide, to conceal”).

Noun

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hoard (plural hoards)

  1. A hidden supply or fund.
    a hoard of provisions; a hoard of money
    • 1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:
      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, […]
    • 1968, Seaby's coin and medal bulletin, numbers 593-604, page 198:
      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.
  2. (archaeology) A cache of valuable objects or artefacts; a trove.
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Etymology 2

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From Middle English horden, from Old English hordian, from Proto-West Germanic *hoʀdōn.

Verb

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hoard (third-person singular simple present hoards, present participle hoarding, simple past and past participle hoarded)

  1. (transitive) To amass, usually for one's own private collection.
    • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto XLIII, page 66:
      The days have vanish’d, tone and tint,
      ⁠And yet perhaps the hoarding sense
      ⁠Gives out at times (he knows not whence)
      A little flash, a mystic hint; […]
    • 1861, Thomas Oswald Cockayne, Spoon and sparrow:
      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, […]
    • 1914, Margaret Bird Steinmetz, Leaves of Life‎[2]:
      When we have new perception we shall gladly disburthen the memory of the hoarded treasures as old rubbish.
  2. (transitive) To save or reserve in one's mind for a future need or use.
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  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*huzda-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 260

Etymology 3

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From Middle English hord, whorde, from Anglo-Norman hurde and Old French hourd, hourt (“barrier, palisade”), from Middle Dutch horde, from Old Dutch *hurd, from Proto-West Germanic *hurdi (“wickerwork, braiding of branches, hurdle, scaffolding, military company”).

Noun

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hoard (plural hoards)

  1. A hoarding (temporary structure used during construction).
  2. A projecting structure (especially of wood) in a fortification, somewhat similar to and later superseded by the brattice.
    • 1993, Christopher C. Henige, Church Fortification in the Périgord:
      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 […]
  3. A hoarding (billboard).
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Etymology 4

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Noun

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hoard

  1. Misspelling of horde.

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