bookhoard
English
Alternative forms
- book-hoard
Etymology
From Old English bōchord (“library, collection of books”), equivalent to book + hoard.
Noun
bookhoard (plural bookhoards)
- (very rare, Anglo-Saxonism) collection of books, library
- 1884, George Stephens, Handbook of the old-Northern Runic Monuments of Scandinavia and England, Digitized edition, published 2009, →ISBN, page 86:
- From the excessively rare double-folio engraving "Cornu Aurei Typus", an impression of which is in my own bookhoard; another is in the Danish National Library.
- 1987, Alexander M. Burrill, Law Dictionary and Glossary (Law), Wm. S. Hein Publishing, →ISBN, page 211:
- BOC HORDE. Sax. [quasi bookhoard.] / A place where books, writing or evidences were kept.
- 2006 November 14, “Heathen Bookhoard A Reading List”, in Asatru Religion, retrieved 2012-02-21:
- Heathen Bookhoard A Reading List
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Related terms
- bookhouse