Synonyms for lode
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : lohd |
| Phonetic Transcription : loÊŠd |
Définition of lode
Origin :- 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.
- noun ore deposit
- noun deposit
- A railroad four miles long, conveys the quartz from the lode to the mills.
- Extract from : « Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining » by John S. Hittell
- The lode descends steeply, and the excavation must follow its course.
- Extract from : « Hittel on Gold Mines and Mining » by John S. Hittell
- When he crosses a lode, its bending is supposed to indicate the presence thereof.
- Extract from : « Storyology » by Benjamin Taylor
- To strike a lode and win a braw lass a' in the day, ye may say.
- Extract from : « They of the High Trails » by Hamlin Garland
- I give you my word, Slade, this is the only mine or lode of which I know.
- Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
- Mebbe he believes that bunk about the lode being copper, and mebbe he don't.
- Extract from : « Bloom of Cactus » by Robert Ames Bennet
- And tell them we've devised a way to mine the lode without them—got that?
- Extract from : « The Native Soil » by Alan Edward Nourse
- Silver seldom is found in a lode extending with any great regularity.
- Extract from : « Picked up at Sea » by J.C. Hutcheson
- No one ever saw the vein or lode in the process of formation.
- Extract from : « The Economic Aspect of Geology » by C. K. Leith
- There would be enough for both if they succeeded in uncovering the lode.
- Extract from : « The Gold Girl » by James B. Hendryx
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