From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hoard \Hoard\, noun [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hoard \Hoard\, noun See {Hoarding}, 2. --Smart.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hoard \Hoard\, verb (used with an object) [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 The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Hoard \Hoard\, verb (used without an object) To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.
To hoard for those whom he did breed. --Spenser.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: a secret store of valuables or money [syn: {cache}, {stash}]
verb
1: save up as for future use [syn: {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" [syn: {roll up}, {collect}, {accumulate}, {pile up}, {amass}, {compile}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
117 Moby Thesaurus words for "hoard": abundance, accumulate, accumulation, agglomeration, amass, amassment, assemble, backlog, budget, cache, capital gains, cleanup, clear profit, collect, collection, colluvies, commissariat, commissary, conglomeration, cornucopia, cumulate, cumulation, dividends, dump, earnings, filthy lucre, fund, gain, gains, garner, garner up, gather, gather into barns, get, gettings, gleanings, gross, gross profit, heap, heap up, hide, hoard up, hold, income, interest, inventory, keep, killing, larder, lay by, lay up, lucre, makings, mass, material, materials, materiel, munitions, neat profit, nest egg, net, net profit, paper profits, pelf, percentage, perk, perks, perquisite, pickings, pile, pile up, plenitude, plenty, proceeds, profit, profits, provisionment, provisions, put away, put up, rake-off, rations, receipts, repertoire, repertory, reserve, reservoir, return, returns, rick, save, save up, secrete, set aside, sock away, squirrel, squirrel away, stack, stash, stock, stock up, stock-in-trade, stockpile, store, store up, stores, supplies, supply, supply on hand, take, take-in, treasure, treasure up, treasury, trove, wealth, winnings
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