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“lode”
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load (LOHD) (noun)
1. Something that is lifted and carried: Thaddeus was carrying a heavy load of legal papers in his briefcase.
2. Something that causes worry or sadness: Mary's death is a heavy load for her sister to bear.
2. Something that causes worry or sadness: Mary's death is a heavy load for her sister to bear.
load (LOHD) (verb)
To cause a program, file, etc. to start functioning or to be displayed on the computer's monitor: This new program takes less time to load now than it did before.
lode (LOHD) (noun)
An amount of a mineral, such as gold or silver, that fills a crack or space in rock which is often used in a figurative sense: In Susan's books, she appeared to mine the seemingly endless lode of her personal life.
The library's collection of old newspapers has proven to be a mother lode of information about the town's early history.
lowed (LOHD) (verb)
The characteristic sound uttered by cattle; a moo: It was easy to hear the cattle as they lowed in the pasture.
When the miners were moving a load of sand, they discovered a lode of silver ore. They loaded the ore on the cart drawn by oxen which lowed quietly as they descended the mountain.
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