hoard

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He had neither wife nor children, all for the hoard's sake; but while the hoard was there, to be handled any hour, he regretted nothing.

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  1. noun A hidden fund or supply stored for future use; a cache.
  2. intransitive verb To gather or accumulate a hoard.
  3. transitive verb To accumulate a hoard of.
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  • I hope for a hoard, a squadron, a legion of rainmakers, not just one here and there drowned out by the bellowing of the well-armed, trivialized by media, or else silenced by media not reporting incessantly on what reasoned RainMakers have to say. —  The Moderate Voice
  • When asked why he looked just like shyster publicist Max Clit-hoard (87) in a cheap Star Wars costume, "Jesus" greedily mumbled something about a "30\% sharing of loaves, fishes and the wedding wine". —  TheSpoof.com : Spoof News : Front Page
  • Like several other technology companies, Cisco has a large cash hoard -- $29.5 billion in its last quarterly update -- and is well set to expand during the recession. —  BusinessWeek.com --
  • After gathering their daily hoard, the couple drove to Tesco's in Havant and dispatched of the goods. —  Signs of the Times
  • This glittering hoard is a melancholy reminder that we are only a hundred butterfly generations from summers of plenty. —  The Guardian World News
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treasure ·  stockpile ·  accumulation ·  storehouse ·  surplus ·  circulation ·  shipment ·  casket ·  assortment ·  stash ·  handful ·  reservoir

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hoard:   hoarding ·  hoards
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Etymologies (4)

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  1. Middle English hord, from Old English; see (s)keu- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English hord, from Anglo-Saxon hord = Old Saxon hord = Old High German Middle High German hort, G. (revived) hort = Icelandic hodd, hoddr = Gothic (Moesogothic) huzd, a treasure; prob. akin to L. custos, a guard, keep, custodia, guard, watch (see custody), literally perhaps, as the word in comp. (especially in Anglo-Saxon) indicates, a place ‘hidden,’ being ult. akin to Anglo-Saxon hy¯dan, etc., hide: see hide, and cf. hut, and house, from the same ult. source.
  2. from Middle English horden, from Anglo-Saxon hordian (= Old High German gi-hurten, Middle High German horden = Gothic (Moesogothic) huzdjan), hoard, from hord, a hoard, treasure.
  3. from Anglo-French *horde, hurde, Old French horde, a palisade, barrier, from Old Dutch horde, a hurdle: see hurdle.
 

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