Lodge

1. n. 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.
2. n. A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian’s lodge.
3. n. A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
4. n. A den or cave.
5. n. The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
6. n. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
7. n. 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.
8. n. A collection of objects lodged together.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.