Shoad
noun, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.
"The earliest mining consisted simply in collecting shoads — a means of gaining a livelihood not yet totally discarded."
- 1 To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to whence they derived.
"In shoading it is necessary to distinguish between heavy and light ores, and between friable and hard materials."
- 2 To be distributed as shoads.
"Among the fragments shoaded down the sloping surface of the ground are pieces of edgewise intraformational conglomerate."
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More examples"The earliest mining consisted simply in collecting shoads — a means of gaining a livelihood not yet totally discarded."
Etymology
From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between”). More at shed.
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