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Lode vs Wode - What's the difference?

lode | wode |

As nouns the difference between lode and wode

is that lode is a way or path; a road while wode is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As an adjective wode is

mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.

lode

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) A way or path; a road.
  • (dialectal) a watercourse
  • (mining) A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
  • (by extension) A rich source of supply.

    • Related terms

    * lodestar * loadstone * mother lode

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    wode

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .

    Alternative forms

    * wood

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (archaic) Mad, crazy, insane, possessed, rabid, furious, frantic.
  • * a''. 1588 , (Jasper Heywood), quoted in James Petite Andews, ''The History of Great Britain , published 1806
    • My hair stode up, I waxed wode , my synewes all did shake / And, as the fury had me vext, my teeth began to quake.

    Etymology 2

    See woad

    Noun

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