[ləʊd], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a vein of metal ore in the earth
(e.g: the tin oxide was very thinly scattered within the lode)


Phrases:

Origin:
Old English lād ‘way, course’, variant of load. The term denoted a watercourse in late Middle English and a lodestone in the early 16th century The current sense dates from the early 17th century