plural of lode

A surname from Middle English.

(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.

plural of mother lode

plural of mother-lode

(geology) A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend. / (idiomatic, by extension) Any source of valuable or useful material.

(astronomy) Polaris, the most used lodestar of the northern sky.

Alternative form of mother lode

A naturally occurring magnet. / (obsolete) The mineral magnetite.

A star used as a navigation reference, particularly a pole star such as Polaris. / (figuratively) A guiding tenet or principle.