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Word Meanings - HOARDING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or concealing something. The whole arrangement

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A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work. Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. London Graphic. 2. 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. (more info) German or Dutch origin; cf. D. horde hurdle, fence, G. horde, hürde;

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