Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The principal vein of any district.
- noun A certain very important metalliferous vein in Mexico.
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- noun Alternative form of
mother lode .
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Examples
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Saloon, that within five years town lots in Dawson could not be given away, while the cabins would be chopped up for firewood, he was laughed at roundly, and assured that the mother-lode would be found ere that time.
Chapter XIII 2010
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The mother-lode was never found, and, years afterward, he estimated that the search for it had cost him fifty thousand dollars.
Chapter XI 2010
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It's sure come from a mother-lode somewhere, and other creeks will show up.
Chapter XI 2010
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A quartz miner himself in his early youth, before coming to Alaska, he dreamed of finding the mother-lode.
Chapter XI 2010
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But Piers Morgan is the mother-lode: the H-bomb of rank that will ensure those Merrrcan fiends will start to behave in a manner more befitting a nation that is dangerously close to getting its botty smacked.
Piers Morgan Wins Celebrity Apprentice Despite Being Piers Morgan 2010
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Virginia Woolf herself knew she had indeed hit the mother-lode with these and was mining a rich writing seam,
The Mark on the Wall 2008
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Virginia Woolf herself knew she had indeed hit the mother-lode with these and was mining a rich writing seam,
The Mark on the Wall 2008
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Virginia Woolf herself knew she had indeed hit the mother-lode with these and was mining a rich writing seam,
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If he was having the DTs, he'd hit the mother-lode of hallucinations.
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The mother-lode would be to land the bike rental contract for the "green" re-make of Gone in 60 Seconds wherein a Lone Wolf type (played by Steven Segal) rides his sweet Pista ("Lorraine") around the lofts in a gentrified warehouse district stealing poorly locked fixies.
The New Spin: From Fixed to Broken BikeSnobNYC 2009
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