lode

[ lohd ]

/ loʊd /

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noun

a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.

any body of ore set off from adjacent rock formations.

a rich supply or source.

British. a waterway or channel.

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Origin of lode

before 900; Middle English; Old English lād way, course, carrying; cognate with Old Norse leith way, route, Old High German leita procession. See load, lade, lead¹

WORDS THAT MAY BE CONFUSED WITH lode

load, lode

Words nearby lode

locutionary, locutionary act, locutorium, locutory, Lod, lode, loden, lodestar, lodestone, lodge, lodged

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How to use lode in a sentence

Texas is home to the biggest lode of GOP donor money in the country.
Can Ted Cruz Attract Big Money Donors?|David Frum|May 1, 2013|DAILY BEAST
In August 1803, she hit the mother lode and married Prince Camillo Borghese.
Pauline Bonaparte: Dead Cool|Simon Doonan|November 30, 2009|DAILY BEAST
The mother lode he turned to was the ganglia of so-called feeder funds.
The Madoff Victims Who Came Out Ahead|Edward Jay Epstein|July 5, 2009|DAILY BEAST
O'Hara has faded fast, but some of his best short stories are lode stars to me of what good fiction can do.
My Conversation with John Updike|Barbara Probst Solomon|January 29, 2009|DAILY BEAST

We have cut the south lode at the adit level about 50 or 60 fathoms east of the engine, and have driven about 20 fathoms on it.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2)|Francis Trevithick
Cash looked up from studying the last assay report of the Burro Lode, and his look was not pleasant.
Cabin Fever|B. M. Bower
Since 1899 placer mining has increased considerably, although the greater part of the return has been from lode mining.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
One by one the spider arms of the tunnels felt out into the innermost crevices of the lode.
Blazed Trail Stories|Stewart Edward White
It took me half of the next day to locate the lode, and while I was pilin' the monuments I looked up and saw that villain, Jacks.
Motor Matt's Daring, or, True to His Friends|Stanley R. Matthews

British Dictionary definitions for lode

lode

/ (ləʊd) /

noun

a deposit of valuable ore occurring between definite limits in the surrounding rock; vein

a deposit of metallic ore filling a fissure in the surrounding rock

Word Origin for lode

Old English lād course. Compare load

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