- besides its Masonic connections, there are a number of other Scottish contexts where lodge has a specific meaning. In mining circles it could refer to a pithead shelter, as described by Thomas Stewart in Among the Miners (1893):
the lodge, that is, a little rude hut that no 'hill' was considered complete without in those days. Here, 'hill' is the pithead where the piles of hewn coal accumulate.
In the Highlands, a lodge might instead be a house used primarily to accommodate hunters during the shooting season.