lode
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lode
- /ləʊd/ UK
- /loʊd/ US
- /ləʉd/ Australia
Sounds like load, lowed · Rhymes with -əʊd
Where it comes from
Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“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.
noun lodes
- A way or path; a road.
- A watercourse.
- A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure. The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small graniti
- A rich source of supply. In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.
