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

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moulder ² British  

/ ˈməʊldə /

verb

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

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Etymology

Origin of moulder

C16: verbal use of _mould ³

Example Sentences

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

An old man of eighty-two is made to say: From raging storms at sea The Lord he did me save, And here my tottering limbs is brought To moulder in the grave.

From A Month in Yorkshire by White, Walter