All 3 Uses of
hoard
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- On the right hand, the blank unwhitewashed wall of a four-storied house stretched far into the court; on the left, a wooden hoarding ran parallel with it for twenty paces into the court, and then turned sharply to the left.†
Chpt 2.2hoarding = gathering something valuable and storing it
- At the end of the court, the corner of a low, smutty, stone shed, apparently part of some workshop, peeped from behind the hoarding.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- Not seeing anyone in the yard, he slipped in, and at once saw near the gate a sink, such as is often put in yards where there are many workmen or cab-drivers; and on the hoarding above had been scribbled in chalk the time-honoured witticism, "Standing here strictly forbidden."†
Chpt 2.2
Definition:
to gather something valuable and store it; or a collection of such things