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.
Meaning
7 senses(UK, broadly)A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
(UK, broadly)An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.
(UK, broadly, figuratively)A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper.
(UK)A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker.
(UK, archaic)A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.
(UK, obsolete, uncountable)Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.
(UK, obsolete, rare, uncountable)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”)
Examples
2 sentencesSeveral heavy stones were hurled from the mouldering battlements into the roaring sea beneath.
You are a mouldering wreck.
ruТы трухлявая развалина. — odexed
Origin
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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