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platt |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Lodge \Lodge\, n. [OE. loge, logge, F. loge, LL laubia porch, gallery, fr OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor, bower, fr lab foliage. See {Leaf}, and cf {Lobby}, {Loggia}.] 1. A shelter in which one may rest; as: a A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as an Indian's lodge. --Chaucer. Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build]. --Robert of Brunne O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! --Cowper. b A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate. --Shak. c A den or cave. d The meeting room of an association; hence the regularly constituted body of members which meets there as a masonic lodge. c The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college. 2. (Mining) The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also {platt}. --Raymond. 3. A collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. --De Foe. 4. A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is of about a thousand individuals. {Lodge gate}, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See {Lodge}, n., 1 b . From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Platt \Platt\, n. (Mining) See {Lodge}, n. --Raymond.
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