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Webster 1913 Edition

Shoad

Shoad

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Noun.
[Cf. G.
schutt
rubbish.]
(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.
[Written also
shode
.]

Webster 1828 Edition

Shoad

SHOAD

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Noun.
Among miners, a train of metallic stones which serves to direct them in the discovery of mines.

Definition 2024

shoad

shoad

English

Alternative forms

Noun

shoad ‎(plural shoads)

  1. Separation; distinction.
  2. A chasm or ravine.
  3. A line of parting of the hair of the head; a part (in the hair); the top of the head.
  4. (mining) Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.

Verb

shoad ‎(third-person singular simple present shoads, present participle shoading, simple past and past participle shoaded)

  1. (mining) To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to whence they derived.

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Etymology

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 *skaidą ‎(“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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