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shoaded

shoaded is the simple past and past participle of shoad.

Meaning of shoad

Verb

shoad (third-person singular simple present shoads, present participle shoading, simple past and past participle shoaded)

  1. To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to whence they derived.
    • In shoading it is necessary to distinguish between heavy and light ores, and between friable and hard materials.1879, William Bailes, Student's Guide to the Principles of Coal & Metal Mining, page 89
  2. To be distributed as shoads.
    • Among the fragments shoaded down the sloping surface of the ground are pieces of edgewise intraformational conglomerate.1941, Royal Society of South Australia, Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia, page 307

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Questions about shoaded

What is shoaded the simple past and past participle of?
Shoaded is the simple past and past participle of shoad.

Words near shoaded in the dictionary

  1. sho
  2. sho nuff
  3. sho'
  4. Shoa
  5. shoad
  6. shoaded
  7. shoader
  8. shoaders
  9. shoading
  10. shoads
  11. Shoaf

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