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shoad.

Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.

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Meaning & usage

noun
  1. Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between”). More at shed.

verb
  1. To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to whence they derived.

  2. To be distributed as shoads.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between”). More at shed.

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