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shoad

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • See shade, shade.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Mining) A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore which have become separated by the action of water or the weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Separation; distinction.
  • noun A chasm or ravine.
  • noun A line of parting of the hair of the head; a part (in the hair); the top of the head.
  • noun mining Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.
  • verb mining To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to where they derived.

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English *(ġe)scād, ġescēad ("separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method"), from Proto-Germanic *skaidan (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skÁit-, *skÁi- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan ("to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between"). More at shed.

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  1. shode

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