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hunting lodge

• 1 Obs. a wigwam (def. 1) or other habitation used by an Indian on the hunt.

  See also: hunting tent  hunting wigwam  wigwam ((v.)) (def. 1)  

  • 1800  (1933)  [I sent 4 men for the four red Deer that are in our Hunters lodges. . . .]
  • 1852  (1881)  The Indian only visits the town, once the favourite site for his hunting-lodge, to receive his annual government presents, to trade his simple wares of basket and birch-bark work . . . to supply wants which have now become indispensable, before undreamed of.
  • 1897  During these long waitings in their wigwams, or hunting lodges, the Indians have not much with which to interest themselves; the result is, the Bible has come to them as a wonderful benediction.

• 2 a cabin or cottage used by a sportsman while on a hunting expedition.

  See also: lodge (def. 4a)  

  • 1869  . . . Mr. Sandford has a hunting lodge [at Clearwater]. . . .
  • 1965  All told more than 100 properties were expropriated, including a number of hunting and fishing lodges.