Definitions for lode

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Spelling: [lohd]
IPA: /loʊd/

Lode is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 37 anagrams from letters in lode (delo).

Definitions for lode

noun

  1. a veinlike deposit, usually metalliferous.
  2. any body of ore set off from adjacent rock formations.
  3. a rich supply or source.
  4. British. a waterway or channel.

Origin of lode

before 900; Middle English; Old English lād way, course, carrying; cognate with Old Norse leith way, route, Old High German leita procession. See load, Examples for lode

When he crosses a lode, its bending is supposed to indicate the presence thereof.

I give you my word, Slade, this is the only mine or lode of which I know.

A railroad four miles long, conveys the quartz from the lode to the mills.

No one ever saw the vein or lode in the process of formation.

Silver seldom is found in a lode extending with any great regularity.

O'Hara has faded fast, but some of his best short stories are lode stars to me of what good fiction can do.

And tell them we've devised a way to mine the lode without them—got that?

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.

The lode descends steeply, and the excavation must follow its course.

Word Value for lode
Scrable

5

Words with friends

6

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