HLL = H = hobbit

hoarding n.

See software hoarding.

--The Jargon File version 4.3.1, ed. ESR, autonoded by rescdsk.

Hoard"ing (?), n. [From OF. hourd, hourt, barrier, palisade, of German or Dutch origin; cf. D. horde hurdle, fence, G. horde, hurde; akin to E. hurdle. &root;16. See Hurdle.]

1. Arch.

A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials while builders are at work.

[Eng.]

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.

 

© Webster 1913.

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