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Definition of lode
1 dialectal, England : waterway
2 : an ore deposit
3 : something that resembles a lode : an abundant store
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That’s when Janice Regan and her grandson decided to beachcomb the sandy island, finding a mother lode of pristine shells.
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And yet the stooges in movies like Zoolander come in handy as providers of an alternative mother lode of teachable moments.
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Lodes credited his players for adjusting to him and each other, with several new players in from North.
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MILES O’BRIEN: With a mother lode of unnatural consequences.
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Those in search of transformative music have just hit the mother lode.
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Origin and Etymology of lode
Middle English, from Old English lād course, support; akin to Old English līthan to go — more at lead
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: an amount of a mineral (such as gold or silver) that fills a crack or space in rock
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