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Definition of lode noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

lode

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/ləʊd/
 
/ləʊd/
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  1. a line of ore (= metal in the ground or in rocks)
    Word OriginOld English lād ‘way, course’, variant of load. The term denoted a watercourse in late Middle English and a lodestone in the early 16th cent. The current sense dates from the early 17th cent.
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