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Webster 1913 Edition

(lōd)

Noun.

[AS.

lād

way, journey, fr.

līðan

to go. See

to guide, and cf.

a burden.]

A water course or way; a reach of water.

Down that long, dark

lode

. . . he and his brother skated home in triumph.

C. Kingsley.

Especially:

(Mining)

Any regular vein or course of valuable mineral, whether metallic or not.

, n.

Among miners, a metallic vein, or any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not, but commonly a metallic vein.

A cut or reach of water.

See also: lode

lodē f