lode
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.
Origin of lode
1Words that may be confused with lode
- load, lode
Words Nearby lode
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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.
In August 1803, she hit the mother lode and married Prince Camillo Borghese.
The mother lode he turned to was the ganglia of so-called feeder funds.
O'Hara has faded fast, but some of his best short stories are lode stars to me of what good fiction can do.
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. BowerSince 1899 placer mining has increased considerably, although the greater part of the return has been from lode mining.
One by one the spider arms of the tunnels felt out into the innermost crevices of the lode.
Blazed Trail Stories | Stewart Edward WhiteIt 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
/ (ləʊd) /
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
Origin of lode
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Scientific definitions for lode
[ lōd ]
A vein of mineral ore that is deposited between clearly demarcated layers of rock or that fills a fissure in a rock formation.
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