shoad

• shode

From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English *(ġe)scād, ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from Proto-Germanic *skaidą (“separation, distinction”), from Proto-Indo-European *skÁit-, *skÁi- (“to cut, divide, separate”). Related to Old English scādan (“to separate, divide, part, make a line of separation between”). More at shed.

shoad (plural shoads)

1. Separation; distinction.
2. A chasm or ravine.
3. A line of parting of the hair of the head; a part (in the hair); the top of the head.
4. (mining) Loose fragments (often of metal ore) mixed with earth.

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

1. (mining) To seek for a vein or mineral deposit by following a shode, or tracing them to whence they derived.

• dosha