lode

The lode descends steeply, and the excavation must follow its course.

A railroad four miles long, conveys the quartz from the lode to the mills.

When he crosses a lode, its bending is supposed to indicate the presence thereof.

To strike a lode and win a braw lass a' in the day, ye may say.

Mebbe he believes that bunk about the lode being copper, and mebbe he don't.

I give you my word, Slade, this is the only mine or lode of which I know.

And tell them we've devised a way to mine the lode without them—got that?

Silver seldom is found in a lode extending with any great regularity.

No one ever saw the vein or lode in the process of formation.

If your father actually succeeded in locating the lode, it is a strike.