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Garner's Modern English Usage (5 ed.)
... (= a guiding light or principle) is so spelled—not ⋆loadstar . Current ratio in print ( lodestar vs. ⋆loadstar ): 15:1 ...
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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea (2 ed.)
... , a sailor's name for Polaris , or the Pole Star. The origin of the name presumably comes from the same old English source as lodeman and lodestone , to give a meaning as ‘guiding...
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The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style
... (= a guiding light or principle) is so spelled—not loadstar...
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Fowler’s Dictionary of Modern English Usage (4 ed.)
...lodestar . The recommended spelling, not load-....
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New Oxford Rhyming Dictionary (2 ed.)
... • Qatar • Telstar • sitar • Ishtar • co-star • lodestar • sunstar • megastar • superstar • avatar •...
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Fowler’s Concise Dictionary of Modern English Usage (3 ed.)
... , lodestone are the preferred spellings, not load...
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The Encyclopedia of Popular Music (4 ed.)
... A group forged after disagreements in the Senser camp over musical direction, Lodestar feature three former members of that ‘crustoid, pan-cultural fusioneering’ group - Heitham Al-Sayed (vocals), Haggis (bass) and John Morgan (drums). Their line-up completed with the addition of Jules Hodgson (guitar), Lodestar were unequivocally a hard rock band. As Al-Sayed told the press, ‘... a lot of it’s a lot less accessible than the Senser stuff. I started to hear music for the melody much more. Our sound is influenced by a lot of old British rock bands and...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.)
... a star that is used to guide the course of a ship, especially the pole star. The word is recorded from Middle English, and the first element means ‘way, course’. The figurative use developed early and was popular up to the 17th century; it was then revived in the early 19th...
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The Oxford Dictionary of Original Shakespearean Pronunciation
...lodestar / ~s n ˈlo:dstɑ:ɹz sp loadstarres 1 > star ...