▪ I. hoarding, n.
(ˈhɔədɪŋ)
[f. hoard n.2]
1. A temporary fence made of boards inclosing a building while in course of erection or repair; often used for posting bills and advertisements; hence, any boarding on which bills are posted.
| 1823 P. Nicholson Pract. Build. 225 Hoarding, an inclosure of wood about a building, while erecting or repairing. 1860 W. Collins Wom. 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 Print. Trades Jrnl. No. 25. 14 A poster now to be seen on most of the London street hoardings. |
2. Mil. See quot. 1875.
| 1865 Kingsley Herew. II. ix. 146 They had thrown up..doubtless overhanging hoardings or scaffolds. 1875 Parker Gloss. Archit., 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. |
▪ II. hoarding, vbl. n.
(ˈhɔədɪŋ)
[f. hoard v.]
1. The action of the verb hoard; esp. the accumulation and hiding of money. (Also with up.)
| 1593 Shakes. 3 Hen. VI, ii. ii. 48 And happy alwayes was it for that Sonne Whose Father for his hoording went to hell. a 1639 W. Whately Prototypes iii. xxxix. (1640) 16 Such hoording is no oppression but good husbandry. 1845 Ford Handbk. Spain i. 5 In self defence they are much addicted to hoarding. |
2. concr. (pl.) That which is hoarded; money laid up.
| 1715 South Serm. IV. 450 All a Man's Gettings and Hoardings up, during his Youth. 1870 Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xlix. 10 Their hoardings are no longer theirs. |
▪ III. hoarding, ppl. a.
[f. hoard v. + -ing2.]
That hoards: see the verb.
| 1595 Shakes. John iii. iii. 8 Shake the bags Of hoording Abbots. 1641 Brome Joviall Crew i. Wks. 1873 III. 356 The hoarding Usurer. 1827 Hood Hero & Leander lxxii, And with concealing clay, Like hoarding Avarice locks up his eyes. |