A store, stock or large quantity of any thing accumulated or laid up; a hidden stock; a treasure; as a hoard of provisions for winter; a hoard of money.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. To collect and form a hoard; to lay up store.
2. Nor cared to hoard for those whom he did breed.
1. To collect and lay up a large quantity of any thing; to amass and deposit in secret; to store secretly; as, to hoard grain or provisions; to hoard silver and gold.
2. It is sometimes followed by up, but without use; as, to hoard up provisions.
1. See Hoarding, 2.
2. 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.
To lay up a store or hoard, as of money.
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.
Collected and laid up in store.
One who lays up in store; one who accumulates and keeps in secret.
One who hoards.
1. Laying up in store.
2. Instinctively collecting and laying up provisions for winter; as, the squirrel is a hoarding animal.
1. A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.
2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something.
Store Roget’s Thesaurus §636
N. stock, fund, mine, vein, lode, quarry, spring, fount, fountain, well, wellspring, milch cow, stock in trade, supply, heap, treasure, reserve, corps de reserve, reserved fund, nest egg, savings, bonne bouche, crop, harvest, mow, vintage, store, accumulation, hoard, rick, stack, lumber, relay, storehouse, storeroom, storecloset, depository, depot, cache, repository, reservatory, repertory, repertorium, promptuary, warehouse, entrepot, magazine, buttery, larder, spence, garner, granary, cannery, safe-deposit vault, stillroom, thesaurus, bank, armory, arsenal, dock, gallery, museum, conservatory, menagery, menagerie, reservoir, cistern, aljibar, tank, pond, mill pond, gasometer, budget, quiver, bandolier, portfolio, coffer, conservation, storing, storage
V. store, put by, lay by, set by, stow away, set apart, lay apart, store treasure, hoard treasure, lay up, heap up, put up, garner up, save up, bank, cache, accumulate, amass, hoard, fund, garner, save, reserve, keep back, hold back, husband, husband one's resources, deposit, stow, stack, load, harvest, heap, collect, lay in store, keep, file, lay in, preserve
Phr. adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit