moulder

Meanings

1. Often followed by away or down: to cause (something) to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.
2. To cause (someone or something) to die away or disappear.
3. Often followed by away: to decay or rot, or to crumble to pieces.
4. To die away, to disappear.
5. Often followed by away: of a group of people (especially an army): to diminish in number; to dwindle.

1. A person who moulds dough into loaves for baking into bread.
2. A person who moulds or shapes material into objects, especially clay into bricks, pottery, etc.
3. An instrument or machine used to mould or shape material into objects.
4. A person or thing that influences or shapes; an influencer, a shaper.
5. A person who makes moulds for casting metal; a mouldmaker.

1. Alternative spelling of mulder (“one or more crumbled pieces of food, especially oatcake; a crumb or crumbs”).
2. Synonym of mould (“loose, friable soil”); also, dust.

1. 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”)

1. A surname.

Etymology

From mould (“loose friable soil; rotting earth regarded as the substance of the human body”) + -er (suffix forming frequentative verbs), probably influenced by mould (“furry growth of fungi”). Mould is derived from Middle English mold, molde (“loose friable soil, dirt, earth; earth as the substance out of which God made man, and to which the human body decays into after death”), from Old English molde (“earth, soil”), from Proto-Germanic *muldō (“dirt, soil; furry growth of fungi, mould”), from Proto-Indo-European *melh₂- (“to crush, grind”).

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