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mother load

mother load is the misspelling of mother lode.

Meaning of mother lode

Noun

mother lode (plural mother lodes)

  1. A large or rich vein of gold or of another precious mineral from which other branches extend.
    • Undeterred, reasoning from the coarseness of the gold that it had not traveled far, they had set out in search of the mother lode.1912, Jack London, “The Little Man”, in Smoke Bellew
  2. (broadly, idiomatic) Any source of valuable or useful material.
    • It is also letting them probe the genomes of other organisms for DNA that could turn out to be a mother lode for medicine.2000 April 10, Dick Thompson, “The Feds Step Up the Pace”, in Time

Questions about mother load

What is mother load the misspelling of?
Mother load is the misspelling of mother lode.

Words near mother load in the dictionary

  1. Mother Hubbards
  2. mother language
  3. mother languages
  4. mother liquor
  5. mother liquors
  6. mother load
  7. mother lode
  8. mother lodes
  9. mother may I
  10. Mother Monster
  11. mother naked

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