shoad verb 2noun 1forms 3 verb2 •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 •To be distributed as shoads.Among the fragments shoaded down the sloping surface of the ground are pieces of edgewise intraformational conglomerate. — 1941 noun1 •Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.The earliest mining consisted simply in collecting shoads — a means of gaining a livelihood not yet totally discarded. — 1915 formsshoaded · shoading · shoads
