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moulder

1 British  
/ ˈməʊldə /

noun

  1. a person who moulds or makes moulds

  2. printing one of the set of electrotypes used for making duplicates

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

moulder 2 British  
/ ˈməʊldə /

verb

  1. (often foll by away) to crumble or cause to crumble, as through decay

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of moulder

C16: verbal use of mould ³


Example Sentences

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The rise of railways and roads made them redundant and many were left to moulder, alongside the old industrial areas of many cities.

From Economist ● Dec. 17, 2014

The pathologist on duty became so entranced by the face of the girl with the enigmatic half-smile that he asked a moulder to take a plaster cast of her face.

From BBC ● Oct. 16, 2013

He was known as Pit Legs, although his own trade was as a brass moulder.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 26, 2012

Here Frances de la Tour and Linda Bassett moulder away, lady and companion: guardians of a home – or a property? – looking as if they might be part of its saleable contents.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 11, 2012

Close by, was a fragment of pottery marked by the finger of the moulder.

From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by J. P. (John Patterson) MacLean

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