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.

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English way, load from Old English lād way leit- in Indo-European roots

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

Lode Sentence Examples

  • The Broken Hill lode is the largest yet discovered.

  • The next most famous lode is that of Leadville, Colorado, which from 1879 to 1889 yielded $147,834,186, chiefly in silver and lead.

  • About this lode grew up Virginia City.

  • The production of this lode declined in 1876, but the total production of this country was increased by discoveries in Colorado (Leadville) and Nevada (Eureka); and in more recent years silver-producing areas in other states (Montana, Utah, Idaho) have been exploited.

  • The mines there occur in gneiss and schists, which are probably of Archean age; the lode has in places been worked for a width of over 200 ft.

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Words Starting With

LLOLOD

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Words Starting With L and Ending With E

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