_Lode_ (Vol. v., p. 345.).--It would not appear that this word means "an
artificial watercourse," at least from its use at Tewkesbury, where there
is still the _Lower Lode_, at which a ferry over the Severn still exists;
and there was also the _Upper Lode_, until a bridge was erected over the
river at that place. Will this help to show its proper meaning?