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Old 15-04-2011, 16:46   #1
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What's a lodge to you?

What, besides these meanings...

definition of lodge from Oxford Dictionaries Online

do you understand by the word lodge?

In this part of the world, and certainly to me, it means a body of water, along with the other meanings.

Probably man-made, to supply water for the textile industry, though it could also be a not very large, water-filled quarry. A lodge is larger than a pond, but smaller than a lake.

To me it's a word in fairly common usage in Lancashire, and the north, but can find no reference in any dictionary to a lodge being a place filled with water.

Do you call a small body of water a lodge?

How far away from this area does it stop being called a lodge, and is named something else?

Why isn't recorded in the dictionary? There are certainly more obscure uses of words recorded in most lexicons.
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