单词 | lode |
释义 | loden. 1. †Way, journey, course (obsolete); dialect a road. ΘΚΠ society > authority > control > [noun] > leading lodeOE leadinga1240 leada1300 leadinga1300 manuduction1502 conduct1530 conduction1541 ducture1645 duct1654 duction1661 leadance1682 society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] lodeOE wayOE gatea1300 tracea1300 raik?c1350 coursec1380 coursec1380 racec1390 line1426 fairwayc1440 tradec1480 voye1541 tract1555 track1565 career?1614 OE Andreas (1932) 423 Mycel is nu gena lad ofer lagustream, land swiðe feorr to gesecanne. OE Beowulf 1987 Hu lomp eow on lade, leofa Biowulf. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3455 Þatt illc an shollde þrinne lac Habbenn wiþþ himm o lade. c1330 (?a1300) Sir Tristrem (1886) l. 419 He toke his lod vnliȝt, His penis wiþ him he bare. c1400 (?c1380) Patience l. 156 For be monnes lode neuer so luþer, þe lyf is ay swete. 1886 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester Looad, a lane; in Mobberley applied to the roads leading to the various moss rooms on Lindow Common. 2. A watercourse; an aqueduct, channel; an open drain in fenny districts. Now local. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > stream > [noun] > watercourse or channel runeOE sitchOE pipeOE sichetc1133 guttera1300 siket1300 sikec1330 watergate1368 gole?a1400 gotea1400 flout14.. aa1430 trough1513 guta1552 race1570 lode1572 canala1576 ditch1589 trink1592 leam1601 dike1616 runlet1630 stell1651 nullah1656 course1665 drain1700 lade1706 droke1772 regimen1797 draught1807 adit1808 sluit1818 thalweg1831 runway1874 789 Grant in Birch Cartul. Sax. (1885) I. 358 Mariscem..quam circumfluit Iaegnlaad.] 1572 J. Jones Benefit Bathes of Buckstones f. 10v Such evill ayre as issueth foorth of Lodes, Synckes, Sewers, and draynes. 1574 Bp. Cox in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. IV. 17 Our fennes, loodes, dykes, and banckes, being..so sore decayed. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 491 The whole region..is overflowed by the spreading waters of the rivers..having not loades, and sewers large enough to voide away. 1839 W. B. Stonehouse Hist. Isle of Axholme 376 There was formerly a small lode or gut, called Volfdyke, by which boats and small craft could sail out of the Trent. 1859 C. Kingsley Plays & Puritans in Misc. II. 139 Down that long dark lode..he..skated home. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake II. ii. 32 A man cutting sedges in a punt in the lode alongside. 1893 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Lade, lode, an aqueduct or channel which carries the water to a mill. 1894 Athenæum 5 May 587/1 A view of a fen lode or land drain in rainy weather. a. Leading, guidance. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > guiding, leading, or showing the way lodec1175 leadinga1300 forleadinga1387 teachinga1400 guidingc1425 conveying1483 conducting1517 conduction1541 conduct?c1550 well guiding1577 pilotage1600 deduction?1615 piloting1663 guidership1849 c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6589 He..Forrleoseþþ sawless soþe lihht. Þatt iss goddspelless lade. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 2140 Forr þatt he [sc. þe steoressmann] wile follȝhenn aȝȝ. Þatt illke steorrness lade. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 8441 Quen he cuth þe lagh o landes lade. b. dialect. The turn to act as pilot. ΚΠ 1855 Correspondent When a signal is made for a pilot, at Aldeburgh, the Pilots on shore draw lots, and he, who gets the lot, or as they call it the Lode, goes off to the vessel. 4. A lodestone. Also figurative an object of attraction.It is uncertain whether quot. ?1515 belongs to this sense; cf. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > magnetism > magnetic devices or materials > [noun] > a magnet or loadstone adamant1345 stone1390 magnesa1398 shipman's stonec1400 loderc1460 lode1509 lodestone?1518 siderite1589 sail-stone1595 pebble1856 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. ccxxiiv So they that ar abrode fast about may range, Rowynge on the see: my self theyr lode and gyde. ?1515 Hyckescorner (de Worde) sig. A.iii I am neuer varyable but doth contynue Styll goynge vpwarde ye ladder of grace And lode in me planted is so true And fro the poore man I wyll neuer tourne my face. 1589 R. Greene Menaphon sig. F Arcadies Apollo, whose brightnesse draws euerie eye to turne as the Heliotropion doth after her load. ?1606 M. Drayton Ode v, in Poemes sig. B7 As with the loade The Steele we tuch. 5. Mining. A vein of metal ore. champion lode, the most productive lode in a district. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > [noun] > vein > vein of ore riba1500 lode1602 run1747 ore streak1755 streak vein1789 lead1814 filon1817 ore vein1830 ore-channel1864 chamber1865 range1866 ore band1874 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 8 They haue now two kinds of Tynne workes, Stream, and Load. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 10v When they light vpon a smal veine, or chance to leese the Load which they wrought,..they begin at another place neere-hand, and so draw by gesse to the main Load againe. 1728 F. Nicholls in Philos. Trans. 1727–8 (Royal Soc.) 35 402 When the Substances forming these Loads are reducible to Metal, the Loads are by the Miners said to be alive; otherwise they are term'd dead Loads. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon i. 64 In the parish of Bridestow a lode of copper has lately been discovered within six or seven fathoms of the surface. 1847 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1843–7 4 151 Zinc lying in two large and two smaller lodes and veins. 1866 G. W. Thornbury Greatheart III. 7 The lode is a champion lode, and must run for miles, so the men tell me. 1872 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 93 The aggregate yield of the mines on the Comstock lode. 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 152 s.v. In general miner's usage, a lode, vein, or ledge is a tabular deposit of valuable mineral between definite boundaries. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters ii. i. 60 The lode comes to an end, and the miners move elsewhere. Compounds C1. General attributive. lode-claim n. ΚΠ 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 365 Brown's Gulch..contains the following lode-claims, all claimed as silver-lodes. lode formation n. ΚΠ 1895 Westm. Gaz. 28 Sept. 4/2 No. 1 Shaft..is sunk to the depth of 24 ft. on lode formation 2 ft. 6 in. wide. lode-location n. ΚΠ 1877 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 328 Several lodes had in the mean time been found, or at least load-locations [sic] made. lode-mining n. ΚΠ 1874 R. W. Raymond Statistics Mines & Mining 363 Concerning the lode-mining interest of the county there is but little to report. lode-ore n. ΚΠ 1778 S. Whatley England's Gazetteer (ed. 2) at Burslem Its potters use almost all the load-ore that is dug at Lawton. C2. lode-light n. a light said to be seen sometimes above a vein of ore. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral sources > [noun] > indicators of presence mother of gold1596 show1600 shoad1602 squad1674 prospect1709 indication1855 showing1877 lode-light1883 indicator1894 1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 443/1 The appearance of the so-called lode-lights may be explained by the production of phosphoretted hydrogen. 1894 C. le N. Foster Ore & Stone Mining 107 Appearances of flame above mineral veins..are sufficiently well established to have received a special name ‘lode lights’ in Cornwall. lode-plot n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 324 Lode-plot, a Lode that underlies very fast or horizontal, and may be rather called a Flat Lode. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > vessels with other specific uses > [noun] > used by pilot lode-ship1357 pilot boat1588 1357 Act 31 Edw. III Stat. 3. c. 2 En cas que..pesson plus grant [que] Lob soit trove en nief appelle Lodship [translation has Lodeship]. lode-stovvan n. ΚΠ 1860 Eng. & Foreign Mining Gloss. (new ed.) (Cornwall Terms) Lode stovvan, a drang driven towards rising ground on the indications of a lode in marshy ground. lodeworks n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > places where raw materials are extracted > mine > [noun] > ore mine lodeworks1586 ore-ground1840 1586 W. Camden Brit. 69 Horum autem stannariorum, siue metallicorum operum duo sunt genera. Alterum Lode-works, alterum Streame-works, vocant. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 8v To find the Loadworkes, their first labour is also imployed in seeking this Shoad, which either lieth open on the grasse, or but shallowly couered. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Lode works [in the Stannaries or Tin Mines in Cornwall], Works performed in the high Grounds, by sinking deep Wells call'd Shafts. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Ranunculaceae (crowfoot and allies) > [noun] > crowfoot clovetonguec1325 pilewort?a1425 crowfootc1440 ranunculus1543 rape crowfoot1578 urchin crowfoot1578 water milfoil1578 lodewort1597 reate1655 hunger-weed1792 devil's claw1996 1597 J. Gerard Herball App. Lodewort is Rams foote. 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