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English
English : topographic name for someone living by a path, road, or watercourse, Middle English lode (the usual form from Old English gelÄd; compare Lade), or a habitational name from any of several minor places named with this word, for example Load in Somerset or Lode in Cambridgeshire and Gloucestershire.
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n.
Alt. of Lodestone
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Alt. of Lodestar
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Same as Loadsman.
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The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.
n.
Same as Loadstone.
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Alt. of Lodesman
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A decomposed granite, forming a mass of gravel, as in tin lodes in Cornwall.
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A piece of magnetic iron ore possessing polarity like a magnetic needle. See Magnetite.
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A pilot.
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A composite stone (quartz, schorl, and hornblende) in the walls of tin and copper lodes.
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A star that leads; a guiding star; esp., the polestar; the cynosure.
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The seat or bottom of a mine; -- applied to horizontal veins or lodes.
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Same as Loadstar.
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Lodestone; magnet.
v. i.
To search after lodes. See Costeaning.