Wort des Tages 10 September 2026

cross-course

A vein or lode that crosses the main lode, sometimes accompanied by a change of course in the main lode.

Warum dieses Wort

A vein that crosses the main lode. Miners were mapping structural geology in working vocabulary long before the science existed.

In use

We lost the good ground where that cross-course came through, and the lode kicked west of it by a good few feet.

Written by our editors to show how the term is used, not a recorded quotation.

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