shoad

The English word “shoad” has 3 meanings listed here.

noun

Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.

verb

To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to whence they derived.
To be distributed as shoads.

Etymology

From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skey- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation…

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