What is "lodge gate"

Lodge \Lodge\ (l[o^]j), 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:

   1. 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.

   2. A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
      --Shak.

   3. A den or cave.

   4. 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.

3. A collection of objects lodged together.

   The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands.
   --De Foe.

4. A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.

   Lodge gate, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See Lodge, n., 1 (b) .