Crossword clues for hoarding
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Hoarding \Hoard"ing\, n. [From OF. hourd, hourt, barrier, palisade, of German or Dutch origin; cf. D. horde hurdle, fence, G. horde, h["u]rde; akin to E. hurdle. [root]16. See Hurdle.]
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(Arch.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. [Eng.]
Posted on every dead wall and hoarding.
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A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.
The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding, the space within which was divided into compartments by sheets of tin.
--Tyndall.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context UK English) A temporary fence-like structure built around building work to add security and prevent accidents to the public. 2 A roofed wooden shield placed over the battlements of a castle and projecting from them. 3 (context chiefly British English) A billboard. Etymology 2
vb. (present participle of hoard English)
WordNet
n. large outdoor signboard [syn: billboard]
Wikipedia
Hoarding or caching in animal behavior is the storage of food in locations hidden from the sight of both conspecifics (animals of the same or closely related species) and members of other species. Most commonly, the function of hoarding or caching is to store food in times of surplus for times when food is less plentiful. However, there is evidence that some amount of caching or hoarding is done in order to ripen the food, called ripening caching. The term hoarding is most typically used for rodents, whereas caching is more commonly used in reference to birds, but the behaviors in both animal groups are quite similar.
Hoarding is done either on a long-term basis – cached on a seasonal cycle, with food to be consumed months down the line – or on a short term basis, in which case the food will be consumed over a period of one or several days.
Some common animals that cache their food are rodents such as hamsters and squirrels, and many different bird species, such as rooks and woodpeckers. The western scrub jay is noted for its particular skill at caching. There are two types of caching behavior: larder-hoarding, where a species creates a few large caches which it often defends, and scatter-hoarding, where a species will create multiple caches, often with each individual food item stored in a unique place. Both types of caching have their advantage.
Hoarding may refer to:
- Temporary fencing enclosing a construction site
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Hoarding, the gathering and storing of goods
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Compulsive hoarding, a pathological hoarding by humans
- Animal hoarding, the compulsive hoarding of animals by humans
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Compulsive hoarding, a pathological hoarding by humans
- Hoarding (castles), a roofed wooden shield placed over castle battlements
- Hoarding (animal behaviour), an animal behaviour related to storing surplus goods for later use
- Billboard, known also as hoarding
- Hoarding (economics)
A hoard or hoarding was a temporary wooden (shed-like) construction that was placed on the exterior of the ramparts of a castle during a siege.
The purpose of a hoarding was to allow the defenders to improve their field of fire along the length of a wall and, most particularly, directly downwards to the wall base.
The latter function was capably taken up by the invention of machicolations, which were an improvement on hoardings, not least because masonry does not need to be fire-proofed. Machicolations are also permanent and siege-ready.
It is suspected that in peacetime, hoardings were stored as prefabricated elements.
In some castles, construction of hoardings was facilitated by putlog holes that were left in the masonry of castle walls.
Some medieval hoardings have survived including examples at the North tower of Stokesay Castle, England and the keep of Laval, France. The Château Comtal at Carcassonne, France, has reconstructed wooden hoardings and Castell Coch, South Wales, has a reconstructed bretache over the drawbridge, designed by the Victorian architect William Burges.
Usage examples of "hoarding".
At the Royal Canal bridge, from his hoarding, Mr Eugene Stratton, his blub lips agrin, bade all comers welcome to Pembroke township.
Oresbius cinched with shining belt who had lived in Hyle hoarding his great wealth, his estate aslope the shores of Lake Cephisus, and round him Boeotians held the fertile plain.
Bakkat opened the pouch on his belt and brought out a stick of eland chagga half the length of his thumb that he had been hoarding, and the dried wing of a sunbird.
As the dose of ketamine entered her bloodstream, Nina started counting, hoarding her strength.
The solipsistic hoarding of your own self and the hubristic munification of your will against the potent authority of the institution, these are textbook psychopathologies.
A mile and a half along the factory-lined Ringway, a huge hoarding reared upwards.
She also had taken lately to hoarding: unpaired gloves, broken eyeglass frames, bits of tape and twine.
There were those who claimed that by hoarding the minute quantity of yttrium remaining to us we might be able to hold off the invaders when they should come.
Known as a hoarding or brattice, this structure provided a roof over the battlements to protect defenders from missiles, and often projected outwards from the walls to allow defenders to drop missiles on attackers below.
The art of bill-sticking had lost nothing in the interval, and from countless tall hoardings, from house ends, from palings, and a hundred such points of vantage came the polychromatic appeals of the great Boomfood election.
Ask Fyler to bring up some decent stuff from the hold and tell him Captain Quain says no hoarding.
It is the clue to the unlovingness of so much sexual life, to sadistic impulses, to avarice, hoarding and endless ungainful cheating and treachery which gives men the sense of getting the better of someone even if they do not get the upper hand.
And with that unrepentent and unremorseful thought, Amelia stopped before another giant hoarding outside a cheap movie house.
Steamed, unspiced bedjies were unspeakably bland, but the Ryn matriarchs had taken to hoarding their herbs.
Bakkat opened the pouch on his belt and brought out a stick of eland chagga half the length of his thumb that he had been hoarding, and the dried wing of a sunbird.