Lode Definition

lōd
noun
Any flat deposit of valuable ore separated from the adjoining rock by definite boundaries.
Webster's New World
A vein containing important quantities of metallic ore and filling a well-defined fissure in the rock.
Webster's New World
Any abundant or rich source.
Webster's New World

(dialectal) A watercourse.

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Noun

Singular:
lode
Plural:
lodes

Origin of Lode

  • Etymologically identical with load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lád "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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  • Middle English way, load from Old English lād way leit- in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

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