Lode"star` (?), n. Same as Loadstar.
Lode"stone` (?), n. (Min.) Same as Loadstone.
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.