lode
A watercourseA watercourse.
» These lodes may prove rich enough to be profitably mined.
Эти залежи могут оказаться достаточно прибыльными для разработки.
Meaning
4 senses(dialectal)A watercourse.
A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
Ader
жи́лаžíla
a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
(broadly)A rich source of supply.
Goldgrube
(obsolete)A way or path; a road.
Examples
3 sentencesThese lodes may prove rich enough to be profitably mined.
ruЭти залежи могут оказаться достаточно прибыльными для разработки.
This is the richest uranium lode I've seen.
The Colorado silver lodes are porous at the surface and colored more or less red or green.
Translations
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Origin
Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode coDoublet 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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