lode

nounore deposit

noundeposit

Synonyms for lode

noun ore deposit

Word Origin & History

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 Sentences for 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.

lode

Synonyms for lode

mine

mother lode

store

stores

strata

lode

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mine

mother lode

store

stores

strata

Synonyms for lode

fountain