lode

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

lode [lode lodes] BrE [ləʊd] NAmE [loʊd] noun
a line of ↑ore (= metal in the ground or in rocks)

Word 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 cent. The current sense dates from the early 17th cent.