Noun
A water course or way; a reach of water.
A metallic vein; any regular vein or course, whether metallic or not.
Source: Webster's dictionaryAnother danger is that commercial pressures of one sort or another will divert the attention of the best thinkers from real innovation to exploitation of the current fad, from prospecting to mining a known lode. Dennis Ritchie
Everybody's looking for the niche to make the difference. Some people think they see the mother lode in the beautiful people, especially the vote of the beautiful women. Suzanne Fields
After lode ore is crushed, recovery of the valuable minerals is done by one, or a combination of several, mechanical and chemical techniques. Source: Internet
Due to strong high pressure over Northern California, expect dangerously hot conditions in the Mother Lode and the Northern San Joaquin Valley, with the afternoon highs ranging from 95 to 112 degrees. Source: Internet
More recent research has revealed that most of these lode fillings are much younger ( Triassic to Tertiary ). Source: Internet
It would be more appropriately rendered by "lead way" and "lode" ("way," "course," "journey," "leading," "guidance"; cf. "lodestone" and "lodestar"), the somewhat obsolescent deverbal noun from "to lead." Source: Internet