noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
mother lode
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The Sharper Image catalog is a mother lode of men’s gadgets and toys.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
hit the mother lode
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A simple riffle system can speed up the processing of the lode All this has led to some skill rubbing off.
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But in November last year, the lodes became exhausted.
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He said that in the old days men came here probing for gold trying to find their lode .
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Outcropping on the surface, the lodes were relatively easy to find and trace.