Both Uses of
hoard
in
Moby Dick
- Rather carried down alive to wondrous depths, where strange shapes of the unwarped primal world glided to and fro before his passive eyes; and the miser-merman, Wisdom, revealed his hoarded heaps; and among the joyous, heartless, ever-juvenile eternities, Pip saw the multitudinous, God-omnipresent, coral insects, that out of the firmament of waters heaved the colossal orbs.†
Chpt 91-93hoarded = gathered something valuable and stored it
- the green miser'll hoard ye soon!†
Chpt 97-99 *hoard = gathers something valuable and stores it
Definition:
to gather something valuable and store it; or a collection of such things