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A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
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Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially as a college mailroom.
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A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
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A local chapter of a trade union.
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A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
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A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
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A den or cave.
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The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
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The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
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A collection of objects lodged together.
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An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
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The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.