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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lode
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mother lode
▪ The Sharper Image catalog is a mother lode of men’s gadgets and toys.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hit the mother lode
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▪ A simple riffle system can speed up the processing of the lode All this has led to some skill rubbing off.
▪ But in November last year, the lodes became exhausted.
▪ He said that in the old days men came here probing for gold trying to find their lode.
▪ Outcropping on the surface, the lodes were relatively easy to find and trace.
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Lode

Lode \Lode\ (l[=o]d), n. [AS. l[=a]d way, journey, fr. l[=i][eth]an to go. See Lead to guide, and cf. Load a burden.]

  1. A water course or way; a reach of water.

    Down that long, dark lode . . . he and his brother skated home in triumph.
    --C. Kingsley.

  2. (Mining) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lode

original Middle English spelling of load (n.), and custodian of most of the original meaning of "way, course, carrying." Differentiation in sense took place 16c. Mining sense of "vein of metal ore" is from c.1600, from notion of miners "following" it through the rock.

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lode

n. 1 (context obsolete English) A way or path; a road. 2 (context dialectal English) a watercourse 3 (context mining English) A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure. 4 (context by extension English) A rich source of supply.

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lode

n. a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks [syn: load]

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Wikipedia
Lode

In geology, a lode is a deposit of metalliferous ore that fills or is embedded in a fissure (or crack) in a rock formation or a vein of ore that is deposited or embedded between layers of rock. The current meaning (ore vein) dates from the 17th century, being an expansion of an earlier sense of a ‘channel, watercourse’ in late Middle English, which in turn is from the 11th-century meaning of lode as a ‘course, way’.

The generally accepted hydrothermal model of lode deposition posits that metals dissolved in hydrothermal solutions (hot spring fluids) deposit the gold or other metallic minerals inside the fissures in the pre-existing rocks. Lode deposits are distinguished primarily from placer deposits, where the ore has been eroded out from its original depositional environment and redeposited by sedimentary forces. A third process for ore deposition is as an evaporite.

A stringer lode is one in which the rock is so permeated by small veinlets that rather than mining the veins, the entire mass of ore and the enveined country rock is mined. It is so named because of the irregular branching of the veins into many anastomosing stringers, so that the ore is not separable from the country rock.

One of largest silver lodes was the Comstock Lode in Nevada, although it is overshadowed by the more recently discovered Cannington Lode in Queensland, Australia. The largest gold lode in the United States was the Homestake Lode. The Broken Hill Lode in South Australia is the largest lead-zinc lode ever discovered.

Lodè

Lodè is a comune (municipality) in the Province of Nuoro in the Italian region Sardinia, located about north of Cagliari and about northeast of Nuoro. As of 31 December 2004, it had a population of 2,110 and an area of .

Lodè borders the following municipalities: Bitti, Lula, Onanì, Padru, Siniscola, Torpè.

Lode (disambiguation)

In geology, lode refers to an economic mineral deposit.

Lode may also refer to:

  • Lode is an old English word meaning rich source of supply
  • The Cambridgeshire Lodes are a series of artificial water channels used to drain the Fenland in East Anglia, England
  • Lode, Cambridgeshire is a village
  • In Italy, lode is also a distinction awarded to exceptional students completing a bachelor's degree.
  • In many Square-Enix Role-playing games, weapons are given the Lode designation (e.g. "Lode Sword"), implying that they are made of an unknown or unnamed mineral
  • Lode Runner is a 1983 platform game
  • Lodestone, a magnetized rock
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Usage examples of "lode".

Sis and old Si and Shep Hodgden and Gimmy Biddle and Charles Fifield was there and father said this will make jest the horse you want for your store and old Si said she aint biger than a rat and father said i gess she is big enuf to carry out all your lodes unless you put down your price, and then they all laffed at Si, and then Si said she was a puller and father said what do you want Josiar one that you have to push, and then they laffed agen and when father called him Josiar i know Si had better look out for when father calls me Henry i know i am in for a liking.

Pewts father opened the window agen and pluged a club out into the yard and holered scat and then we kep still and we herd him tell Nat Weeks that he had got his gun loded and if he herd it go of he needent be sirprized.

If obtaining human oocytes is the goal, the fetal ovary is the mother lode.

It was the access tunnel to the Ranbagh Lode: almost a thousand feet straight through into the pit, and Marchpane could hear the gas hammers of the miners as they labored on the face.

Papa Bear was woofing and rolling around just like he used to, thretening to run off into the woods with a hole arm lode of kids that he would eat up later in his cave.

Then it suddenly petered out for no apparent reason except, of course, that the tinners had come to the end of the lode in that particular spot.

The hearty wightish tinners, all with their sleeves rolled up, were chipping and hacking away at the lode with their picks.

They circumnavigated a continent of carved furniture, beneath tottery mountains of marquetry, past veins of veneer, lodes of inlay, eroded towers of tapestry and trapunto over sheer cliffs of stacked cabinetry, bronze fittings, and mirrored surfaces, all scaled and corrupted by time.

The English of the Fens were coming home from their work of scouring the lodes, drains and streams of the weed and rush which choked them.

The hags were slaves too, but they were old and weak, bent-backed and stiff-fingered, and the Bull Hands did not fear to let them near the lode.

But in uranium and radium mines with a low-to-marginal lode yield, Thiobacillus is being used with increasing regularity.

Where bottomed-out lodes had been struck near more sensible townsites, their towns tended to hang on under new management.

Bantu, who only probably arrived in the area about AD 300 suddenly conceive of a brilliant prospecting talent which enabled them to locate the metal lodes where not a scrap of it showed in the ore as visible gold or copper?

They were biological engineers rather than scientists, their main concern being to improve the strains of their meat-producing and wool-bearing animals, descended in the main from the spermatozoa and ova which Lode Jumbukas did all colonisation vessels of her periodhad carried under refrigeration.

Folded in with the diagram was a misspelled bill from the Mayfus Stone Quarry on Sandpit Road: "4 lodes stone to pave carage house.