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   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.]
   A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge. Chaucer.
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   Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build].
   Robert of Brunne.
   
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   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.
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   (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.
   
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   A collection of objects lodged together.
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   The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands.
   De Foe.
   
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   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.
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   Lodge gate, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See Lodge, n., 1 (b).
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   Platt , n. (Mining) See Lodge, n.
   Raymond.
   
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