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  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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