A Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (up to 1700)
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First published 2000 (DOST Vol. VIII).
This entry has not been updated since then but may contain minor corrections and revisions.
Quotation dates: 1600-1699
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(Schode,) Shode or Shod, v. (Cf. e.m.E. shoad (1602) loose fragments of tin, lead or copper ore mixed with earth, lying on or near the surface and indicating the proximity of a lode, also shoading (19th c.) the process of searching for shoad-ore by digging small pits.) —16.. Macfarlane's Geog. Coll. III 42.
For that the workmen had been shodding, hunting and chasing after a peice or two of great gold
