lode
pronunciation
How to pronounce lode in British English:
UK [ləʊd]
How to pronounce lode in American English:
US [loʊd]
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- Noun:
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
Word Origin
- lode (n.)
- 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.
Example
- 1. But that one was the mother lode .
- 2. But there is an even larger undiscovered mother lode .
- 3. Unlike real resources , however , there is no as-yet-undiscovered , hidden lode a fortunate prospector can strike to disrupt the money supply .
- 4. In the course of drilling one of the possible escape holes , a lode of gold was discovered , according to a swedish drill engineer involved in the drilling on tuesday night .
- 5. After three official sequels to " night of theliving dead " and scores of unofficial ones , the mother lode should beexhausted , but mr romero keeps finding new ways to terrify his audiences withhis rotting brainchildren .