Hoard
Verb
Etymology: from Old English hordian, from hord (= hoard)
Third-person singular simple present: she/he hoards
Indicative past, past participle: hoarded
Present participle: hoarding.
Transitively:
Definition: to make a hoard of; to collect (anything valuable, as money, wealth, comestible, etc.) for future use; to deposit, or lay up, for the sake either of accumulating as much as possible, or of reserving
Antonyms: to dissipate, squander, spend, waste, lavish
Synonyms: to lay up, amass, treasure, store up
It may be approximately translated by acumular, in Spanish; accumulare, in Italian; accumuler, in French.
[…] instead of hoarding the precious metals in the shape of statues, vases, cups, dishes, and personal ornaments, the great possessors of them must have had the strongest inducements to prefer keeping them in the shape of coined money.
William Jacob (An Historical Inquiry into… precious metals)
[…] now they have taken a glass of the Dean's most particular Madeira, wine that has travelled from tropic to tropic, and been hoarded in the spacious cellars of the deanery, nobody knows how long.
Anne Marsh- Caldwell (Castle Avon)
Latterly, I had hoarded up all I could collect; but the sum was small, much too small for the proposed expedition.
Frederick Marryat (Japhet in Search of a Father)
Her money […] actively won and prudently hoarded, increased fourfold.
Allan Cunningham (Lord Roldan)
The natives and some of the European officers want the magistrates to force the sale of grain, and the grain-merchants want to hoard it.
Julia Maitland (Letters from Madras)
I had been now eleven days and nights with no more water than that contained in the jug which he had left with me, a supply which it was not at all probable I had hoarded in the beginning of my confinement, as I had had every cause to expect a speedy release.
Edgar Poe (The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym)
[…] having no wages, he had contrived to earn a little by washing, etc., and every copper was carefully hoarded for the Bombay bazaars, where, he informed me, better bargains in clothes could be got than anywhere in London.
Frank Bullen (The Log of a Sea-Waif)
If a battle was lost, they dispersed to save themselves, and look out for the safety of their families; if won, they went back to their glens to hoard up their booty, and attend to their cattle and their farms.
Walter Scott (Chronicles Of The Canongate)
[…] it is well known he has never ceased to thrive ; all he gets is hoarded in the Bank.
John Galt (Lawrie Todd)
***With the adverb up, to strengthen the connotation of :
During the period of the Macedonian empire, the precious metals were spread in great abundance over the whole eastern shores of the Mediterranean; and if there had not been a very large portion of them hoarded up in the royal treasury, their value must have [… diminished]
William Jacob (An Historical Inquiry into… precious metals)
He had hoarded up some money, which was kept in paper parcels, of a few shillings each, generally scattered about the floor, and which, at his death, he bequeathed to the parish poor.
Alexander Wilson (American ornithology)
While others are hoarding up their bags of money, without the power of enjoying it, I am collecting, […] those beautiful specimens.
Alexander Wilson (American ornithology)
We sent messengers on the 29th of September, to acquaint the Sultan of Caytongee, […] that we had not yet the fourth part of our loading; and moreover that the Chinese and several of his subjects had hoarded up their pepper, in hopes to sell it for a greater price to the Chinese junks, when they should come.
John Pinkerton (Voyages and travels…)
His treasure is so vast, that it cannot be contained in two immense cellars or warehouses, consisting of precious stones, plates of gold, and other rich ornaments, besides as much gold coin as might load an hundred mules […]. This treasure is said to have been hoarded up by twelve kings, his predecessors.
Robert Kerr (… Voyages and Travels)
Every ribbon and every flower he had given her she had hoarded up as though they were of priceless value.
Rosa Carey (Heriot's Choice)
I consoled myself, however, with the idea that your father and mother and the rest were faring just as badly as myself, and I looked forward to the time when the birds would begin to lay eggs again, when I resolved to hoard up a much larger supply while they were fresh
Captain Marryat (The Little Savage)
Intransitively:
Definition: to make a hoard of anything valuable, as money, comestible, etc.; to become a hoarder
It is not improbable that this reserve fund was carefully kept from circulation by hoarding, as a preparation for the grand campaign against the Greeks.
William Jacob (An Historical Inquiry into… precious metals)
He had hoarded, all these years, I found, to good purpose. His property in money amounted to nearly three thousand pounds.
Charles Dickens (David Copperfield)
