Dus tha' no, Garinda .... thas reet !
Never looked to see if this word was in the Dictionary.
What I did come across, in my travels around the U.K., was that when describing where I lived ... 'at the back of a lodge', the puzzled looks and questions of the main house took me back for a while. Soon learnt to explain my meaning of lodge before carrying on with further descriptions ...
It appears to be only found in some Lancashire Dialect dictionaries.
Obviously, is a word that was born during the textile industry for the small expanse of water that supported the mills. Man made.
They say if a word is used often enough, then the dicionaries will accept it. I am sure that most of Lancashire understands this meaning, and suggest you write to them at once...
Karma to you, sir, for pointing this out.