Lodge

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Lodge has several meanings that, in most cases, relates to a place of meeting:

• A place of residence
  • A ski lodge within the snow fields;
  • A hotel, especially with a rustic or wilderness theme and situated outside a city;

• A level of organization in a fraternal group. (eg Masonic Lodge, Masons, Order of the Arrow, Chi Psi Fraternity)
  • A group of individuals who meet as a lodge.
  • The place of meeting for a fraternal group.
  • By extension, a local chapter or meeting place of any membership organization.

• A black lodge - a meeting place for practitioners of black magic

• A beaver's lodge is its natural nest, created in ponds formed by built dams

• (verb) to put or place something somewhere

• Lodge is also a company that makes cast iron cookware: Lodge (company)
• Henry Cabot Lodge was an early 20th century US Senator.

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Links

• Tyler - outer guard of a Freemason's lodge

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