Shoad
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Shoad is a noun meaning (mining) Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.
Meaning
(mining) Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.
More Meanings
- (mining) To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to whence they derived.
- (mining) To be distributed as shoads.
Example Sentences
In shoading it is necessary to distinguish between heavy and light ores, and between friable and hard materials.
The earliest mining consisted simply in collecting shoads — a means of gaining a livelihood not yet totally discarded.
In search of alluvial shoad, the miners studied the landscape, the color and nature of earths, and embedded rocks beside streams and rivers.
As mentioned above, many of the important tin streams are well away from any outcropping tin lodes, hence shoad, so Carew oversimplified his account.
Word Forms
- shoads
- shode
- shoading
- shoaded
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include shode, scall, shoe, swad, shake, shole.
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