Definitions for lodes

lodes lode

Spelling: [lohd]
IPA: /loʊd/

Lodes is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in lodes (delos).

Definitions for lodes

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 lodes

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 lodes

I shall now treat of preliminary mining on lodes or "reefs."

I shall now treat of preliminary mining on lodes or “reefs.”

About 75,000 lodes have been discovered in Colorado, and numberless placers.

There are, however, reefs or lodes which are not persistent in depth.

Mr. Burch reports a copper and silver lode, and also two lodes of gold and silver, in this neighborhood.

In the first place, shafts have to be dug forty or fifty feet deep to the lodes, where the pay dirt is found.

On the find of gold in the quartzes and the metal-veins and lodes.

The ore at these mines is virgin silver, occurring in lodes, and it is sometimes found in large nuggets weighing up to 200 pounds.

He found it rich in the little shaft he sank there, and that is at the point where the two lodes run into each other.

In Cornwall the ore occurs as rock in veins or lodes filling up what must once have been fissures in granite rocks.

Word Value for lodes
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6

Words with friends

7

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