"The
features of the surrounding picture were, a church with hoardingand scaffolding about it, which had been under suppositious repair
so long that the means of repair looked a hundred years old, and
had themselves fallen into decay; ..."

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Definition: \Hoard"ing\, n. [From OF. hourd, hourt, barrier,
palisade, of German or Dutch origin; cf. D. horde hurdle,
fence, G. horde, h["u]rde; akin to E. hurdle. [root]16. See
{Hurdle}.]
1. (Arch.) A screen of boards inclosing a house and materials
while builders are at work. [Eng.]

Posted on every dead wall and hoarding. --London
Graphic.

2. A fence, barrier, or cover, inclosing, surrounding, or
concealing something.

The whole arrangement was surrounded by a hoarding,
the space within which was divided into compartments
by sheets of tin. --Tyndall.