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noun
Lode  n.  
1.
A water course or way; a reach of water. "Down that long, dark lode... he and his brother skated home in triumph."
2.
(Mining) A body of ore visibly separated from adjacent rock.
3.
Especially: (Mining) Any regular vein or course of valuable mineral, whether metallic or not.
4.
Hence: A concentrated supply or source of something valuable.
mother lode a large concentrated source of mineral or other valuable thing, from which lesser sources have been derived; often used figuratively. The term may have been originally applied to real or imagined large deposits of gold from which smaller granules were washed downstream, there constituting a diluted source of gold, and hinting at the richer source from which they were derived; as, to hit the mother lode.





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