lode
Plural: lodes
Noun
- A rich deposit of ore in the earth, often in a vein.
- a deposit of valuable ore occurring within definite boundaries separating it from surrounding rocks
- A way or path; a road.
- A watercourse.
- A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
- A rich source of supply.
Examples
- Striking LODE on the triple-word score felt like discovering a gold mine.
Origin / Etymology
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.
Synonyms
Scrabble Score: 5
lode: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlode: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
lode: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 6
lode: valid Words With Friends Word