Lodge n.
 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.
 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).