hoard

Hoard, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hoarded; p. pr. & vb. n. Hoarding.]

Etymology: [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.

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Hoard, n.

See Hoarding, 2. Smart.

Hoard, n.

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, v. i.

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

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for hoard; he lists it under amass.

Where he writes about it:

They may be stored up for a longer or shorter time; but to hoard is always with a view of permanent retention, generally selfish. — from amass