LODGE

Definitions

1. 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.
2. 2. A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate. Shak.
3. 3. A den or cave.
4. 4. The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
5. 5. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
6. 6. 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.
7. 7. A collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. De Foe.
8. 8. 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).