Definition of “lode”

"He scratched again and apparently hit the mother lode by the look of his nails.

"It could be the mother lode of information that leads to the inner workings of al Qaeda," one official said.

The effort has unearthed 150 polymorphisms, the mother lode of the Y chromosome business.

The makers of this whimsical look at the glam rock era, based loosely on David Bowie and Iggy Pop, should have been mining a rich lode.

The silver drill was presented to me and the lode named "The Oscar".

Then I had to open a new vein, or lode , which with a silver drill I brilliantly performed, amidst unanimous applause.

When we have squandered our precious lode of ice, they can fall on us like wolves.

`Many years ago a miner found a rich lode inside, so he started tunnelling, using the cave as the mouth of his mine.