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单词 hoarding
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hoardingn.1

Brit. /ˈhɔːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhɔrdɪŋ/
Etymology: < hoard v.
1. The action of hoard v.; esp. the accumulation and hiding of money. (Also with up.)
ΘΚΠ
the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > hoarding
muckeringc1430
hoarding1595
hiving1844
squirrelling1960
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 ii. ii. 48 And happie euer was it for that sonne, Whose father for his hoording went to hell.
a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) iii. xxxix. 16 Such hoording is no oppression but good husbandry.
1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 5 In self-defence, they are much addicted to hoarding.
2. concrete (plural) That which is hoarded; money laid up.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > that which is stored or a store > hidden away
hoard937
pose1440
hoarding1715
cache1836
stash1914
1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 450 All a Man's Gettings and Hoardings up, during his Youth.
1871 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David II. Ps. xlix. 10 Their hoardings are no longer theirs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hoardingn.2

Brit. /ˈhɔːdɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhɔrdɪŋ/
Etymology: < hoard n.2
1. A temporary fence made of boards enclosing a building while in course of erection or repair; often used for posting bills and advertisements; hence, any boarding on which bills are posted.
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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > a barrier > [noun] > hedge or fence > a fence > temporary fence
hoard1757
hoarding1823
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 225 Hoarding, an inclosure of wood about a building, while erecting or repairing.
1860 W. Collins Woman in White iii. xi. 413 A rough hoarding of boards had been knocked up before the vestry doorway.
1864 Realm 23 Mar. 6 He rents a hoarding, or a wall, or the side of a house; and woe to that man who, being unauthorised, sticks anything thereupon.
1878 Printing Trades Jrnl. No. 25. 14 A poster now to be seen on most of the London street hoardings.
2. Military. See quot. 1879.
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society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [noun] > galleries or projecting structures
machicolation1773
machicoulis1793
hoarding1865
1865 C. Kingsley Hereward xxviii, in Good Words Aug. 563/2 They had thrown up..doubtless overhanging 'hoardings' or scaffolds.
1879 J. H. Parker Conc. Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 5) 138 Hourd, Hoard, Hoarding, boarding used for protection:..a term in military architecture for the wooden gallery, protected by boarding in front, which was thrown out from the surface of the wall in time of war, to enable the defenders to protect the foot of the wall.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

hoardingadj.

Etymology: < hoard v. + -ing suffix2.
That hoards: see the verb.
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the mind > possession > supply > storage > [adjective]
muckeringa1525
hoardinga1616
magazininga1763
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iii. 8 Shake the bags Of hoording Abbots. View more context for this quotation
1652 R. Brome Joviall Crew i. sig. C3v The hoarding Usurer.
1827 T. Hood Hero & Leander lxxii, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 93 And with concealing clay, Like hoarding Avarice locks up his eyes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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