Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lodge \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}.]
   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}. --Raymond.

   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) .