Shoad

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Shoad \Shoad\, n. [Cf. G. schutt rubbish.] (Mining)
     A train of vein material mixed with rubbish; fragments of ore
     which have become separated by the action of water or the
     weather, and serve to direct in the discovery of mines.
     [Written also {shode}.]
     [1913 Webster]