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English Dictionary: Hoard by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
hoard
n
  1. a secret store of valuables or money [syn: hoard, cache, stash]
v
  1. save up as for future use [syn: hoard, stash, cache, lay away, hive up, squirrel away]
  2. get or gather together; "I am accumulating evidence for the man's unfaithfulness to his wife"; "She is amassing a lot of data for her thesis"; "She rolled up a small fortune"
    Synonym(s): roll up, collect, accumulate, pile up, amass, compile, hoard
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hoard \Hoard\, n.
      See {Hoarding}, 2. --Smart.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hoard \Hoard\, n. [OE. hord, AS. hord; akin to OS. hord, G.
      hort, Icel. hodd, Goth. huzd; prob. from the root of E. hide
      to conceal, and of L. custos guard, E. custody. See {Hide} to
      conceal.]
      A store, stock, or quantity of anything accumulated or laid
      up; a hidden supply; a treasure; as, a hoard of provisions; a
      hoard of money.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hoard \Hoard\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Hoarded}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Hoarding}.] [AS. hordian.]
      To collect and lay up; to amass and deposit in secret; to
      store secretly, or for the sake of keeping and accumulating;
      as, to hoard grain.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Hoard \Hoard\, v. i.
      To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.
  
               To hoard for those whom he did breed.      --Spenser.
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