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n.

1. a. A cottage or cabin, often rustic, used as a temporary abode or shelter: a ski lodge. b. A small house on the grounds of an estate or a park, used by a caretaker or gatekeeper. c. An inn.
2. a. Any of various Native American dwellings, such as a hogan, wigwam, or longhouse. b. The group living in such a dwelling.
3. a. A local chapter of certain fraternal organizations. b. The meeting hall of such a chapter. c. The members of such a chapter.
4. The den of certain animals, such as the dome-shaped structure built by beavers.

v. lodged, lodg·ing, lodg·es
v. tr.

1. a. To provide with temporary quarters, especially for sleeping: lodges travelers in the shed. b. To rent a room to. c. To place or establish in quarters: lodged the children with relatives after the fire.
2. To serve as a depository for; contain: This cellar lodges our oldest wines.
3. To place, leave, or deposit, as for safety: documents lodged with a trusted associate.
4. To fix, force, or implant: lodge a bullet in a wall.
5. To register (a charge or complaint, for example) before an authority, such as a court; file.
6. To vest (authority, for example).
7. To beat (crops) down flat: rye lodged by the cyclone.

v. intr.

1. a. To live in a place temporarily. b. To rent accommodations, especially for sleeping.
2. To be or become embedded: The ball lodged in the fence.

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You are right, it doesn't really make sense and isn't listed in the dictionary.

Perhaps we just use it locally? Most mills up here had their own lodges.

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You are correct, Garinda !! This is a disgrace !! Think the word has been used long enough now to warrant an entry in the dictionary.

Better report it immediately. :eek:

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Actually, I remember reading it the other day now on a site explaining a walk down here. we've got a house in the sticks with a small lake at the side, it called it a lodge, unless it was on about the house. It's not something we say here, merevale(meravale) hall estate has two large lakes, ones called a lake the other a pool.

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My explanation of a Lancashire lodge-

A small man-made lake.
Constructed by damming a natural waterway and usually used by industry.

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rindy your avatar is disgusting

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Why? It's St. Sebastian, a similar tourtured soul as myself.:D

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yer Your treated better than anyone I know. When did anyone ever fire arrows in to your flesh.

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Give 'em a chance, plus I ain't mature enough yet.;)

You'll get smacked for thread wandering in the morning.:D

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me, thread wander, never.


Mill race, mill pool, wier I've found so far .

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[quote=Madhatter
Mill race, mill pool, wier I've found so far .[/QUOTE]

Hatter, GIVE UP !! just not listed YET. Kipax has given you some lovely pics to show you what it is ... here is another ... the one at the back of my house,sorry photo a little dull, brother just showing me how to use his old digital, but surely by now you have got the idea. :D

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I have heard poeple stick needles into garinda dolls... does that count ?

:)

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Thanks Mick for lightning that one up .. makes the duck **** look much more acceptable :D

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Yes your right it does stand out now hehe

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Those dolls are collector's items now.

Keep yours safe.:D

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Ok who's gonna sell me a doll and a pin?

Kate, that there is a mill pond. I know what a mill pond is. It's just that I read that these lodges were concrete sided. sheer drop in to them. Perhaps I got wrong idea. We've got a couple here on the river anker. One had a mill race. wier and then a mill pond, I imagine the others the same, but I've never been and now they've rebuilt the mill as a house so can't get. The top one, used t still have the race, and wier working when I was a kid, but about 15 yrs ago, the wier or dam that diverted the water down the race gave way, the race dried up, and the wier stopped. The mill pond was fed from the other way, and grew up with reeds because the water had stopped flowing.