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.
From Middle English shode, schode, from Old English ġescēad (“separation, distinction, discretion, understanding, argument, reason, reckoning, account, statement, accuracy, art, manner, method”), from...
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Among the fragments shoaded down the sloping surface of the ground are pieces of edgewise intraformational conglomerate.