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hoarder|ˈhɔədə(r)|
Forms: 1 hordere, 2 -are, 4 hordyer, 6 horder, Sc. hurdar, 6–7 hoorder, 7– hoarder.
[f. hoard v. + -er1.]
†1. The keeper of the hoard or treasure; a treasurer; a steward. Also fig. Obs.
944in Kemble Cod. Dipl. IV. 280 Ðis forward was makid with Ordric hordere. c1000ælfric Hom. II. 178 Ða het he his hordere þæt glæsene fæt syllan ðam biddendan sub⁓diacone. 1131O.E. Chron. an. 1131 Swa þæt he scolde setten þær prior of Clunni & circeweard, & hordere, & reil⁓þein. 1340Ayenb. 121 Þet is þe hordyer þet lokeþ þe herte. [1876Freeman Norm. Conq. V. xxiv. 434 The King's ‘Hoarder’ was as old as the King's ‘hoard’.]
2. (in mod. use) One who hoards or stores up, esp. money. (Also with up.)
1500–20Dunbar Poems xxvi. 59 Hud-pykis, hurdaris, and gadderaris. a1529Skelton Image Hypocr. Wks. 1843 II. 417/2 And yet ye be questors, And hoorders vppe of testers. 1552Huloet, Horder of treasure, abditor. 1594(title) in N. & Q. 3rd Ser. III. 1 God's justice shewed uppon a cruelle horder of corne. 1691Locke Lower. Interest Wks. 1727 II. 80 Nobody else, but these Hoarders, can get a Farthing by this proposed change of our Coin. 1845Ford Handbk. Spain i. 66 Hoarders-up of unrevenged grievances. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 102 He is mean, saving..a skinflint, a hoarder. |