Is it Motherload or Motherlode ?

[rh71]

Well?

 

[Fausto]

Lode- a mining term IIRC

From Webster's:

Main Entry: mother lode
Function: noun
Date: 1874
1 : the principal vein or lode of a region
2 : a principal source or supply

 

[im2smrt4u]

Motherlode

 

[rh71]

No wonder it wasn't in the dictionary... it's 2 words. So that's where they got "Lode Runner" from.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Coming from the area that the term originated in, it's "Mother Lode". The term was used to indicate the main vein of the desired substance (usually gold) in a mine. A vein will have many offshoots that are smaller and mined as well, but everyone wants to go for the big central vein called the mother lode.