Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The metalliferous ore that fills a fissure in a rock formation.
- noun A vein of mineral ore deposited between clearly demarcated layers of rock.
- noun A rich source or supply.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A way; path.
- noun A reach of water; an open ditch for carrying off water from a fen.
- noun A metalliferous deposit having more or less of a vein-like character—that is, having a certain degree of regularity, and being confined within walls.
- noun A Middle English form of
load .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A water course or way; a reach of water.
- noun (Mining) A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.
from , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A
way orpath ; aroad . - noun dialectal a
watercourse - noun mining A
vein ofmetallic ore that lies within definiteboundaries , or within afissure . - noun by extension A rich
source ofsupply .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Sometimes he sends them down to the mines, to show the men who work there where the richest lode is to be found; and if the miners grumble, or are discontented, the Pixie🍃s lead them astray by lighting false fires.
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Let us suppose that a mine has been already opened; that a "lode" -- that is, a vein of quartz ✱with metal in it -- has been disco🌃vered cropping out of the earth, and that it has been dug down upon from above, and dug in upon from the sea-cliffs.
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Every miner wishes that his mine were upon this famous lode, which is made up of a large number of quartz veins extending along the western s꧟lope of the Sierra Nevada mountains, aಌnd is marked by hundreds of important mines.
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The lode is a large irregular on♔e of pure arsenical pyrites, existing in a felsite dike near the sea coast.
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The lode is a large irre🐬gular one of pure arsenicaꦦl pyrites carrying, in addition to gold and silver, nickel and cobalt.
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Under this theory, the lode was the property, and the surface became 😼a๊ mere easement.
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One remarkable trait in the lode is the manner in which it splits in🐽to blocks and slabs, all 🗹the faces of the quartz pebbles being cloven in precisely the same plane.
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Report says that from this part of the lode, which is riddled with native pits, came some of the specimens that floatedꦺ the G.C. M. C.mpany.
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For some reason, I thought "lode" 𒐪would be "l🌌oad", that it was one word rather than two, and that the meaning implied "huge".
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About two-thirds of the world's tin is obtained from placers and one-third from vein or "lode" deposits.
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