单词 | hoarding |
释义 | hoardingn.1 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. ΘΚΠ 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 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. That hoards: see the verb. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.11595n.21823adj.a1616 |
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