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lode

Pronunciation: /ləʊd/

The English word “lode” has 4 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A way or path; a road.
  2. A watercourse.
  3. A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
  4. A rich source of supply.

Etymology

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.

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