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Lode
Definitions
- 1 A way or path; a road. obsolete
- 2 a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks wordnet
- 3 A watercourse. dialectal
- 4 A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
"The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small granitic intrusive body."
- 5 A rich source of supply. broadly
"In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns."
Etymology
Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.
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