Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Hoard

Hoard , noun

See Hoarding, 2. — Smart

Hoard , noun

[Old English hord, Anglo-Saxon hord; akin to Old Saxon hord, German hort, Icelandic hodd, Gothic huzd; prob. from the root of English hide to conceal, and of Latin custos guard, English 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.

Hoard , transitive verb

[Anglo-Saxon 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.

Hoard , intransitive verb

To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.
To hoard for those whom he did breed. — Spenser