moulder
A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks,…A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
» Several heavy stones were hurled from the mouldering battlements into the roaring sea beneath.
Значення
значень: 7(Британія, ширше)A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
(Британія, ширше)An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.
(Британія, ширше, переносно)A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper.
(Британія)A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker.
(Британія, архаїчне)A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.
(Британія, застаріле, незлічуване)Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.
(Британія, застаріле, рідковживане, незлічуване)Synonym of mould (“a natural substance in the form of a furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi that appears when organic material lies for a long time exposed to (usually warm and moist) air”)
Приклади
речень: 2Several heavy stones were hurled from the mouldering battlements into the roaring sea beneath.
You are a mouldering wreck.
ruТы трухлявая развалина.
Походження
Partly from the following: Probably a variant of mould (“loose, friable soil”), influencePartly from the following:
Probably a variant of mould (“loose, friable soil”), influenced by moulder (“to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces, etc.”) (etymology 1).
Probably a variant of mould (“furry or woolly growth of tiny fungi”), influenced by moulder (“to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces, etc.”) (etymology 1).
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