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lode.

A way or path; a road.

4 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/ləʊd/Received-Pronunciation/loʊd/General-American/ləʉd/Australia
  1. A way or path; a road.

    obsolete
  2. A watercourse.

    dialectal
  3. A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.

  4. A rich source of supply.

    broadly
Where this word comes from

Doublet 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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