- platt
- Lodge Lodge (l[o^]j), 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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
3. A collection of objects lodged together. [1913 Webster]
The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. --De Foe. [1913 Webster]
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. [1913 Webster]
{Lodge gate}, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See {Lodge}, n., 1 (b) . [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.