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   Lodge (lŏj), 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.
   
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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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   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.
   
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   3. A collection of objects lodged together.
   
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   The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. De Foe.
   
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   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”.
   
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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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