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hunting lodge
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1 — Obs.
a wigwam (def. 1) or other habitation used by an Indian on the hunt.
Quotations
1800
[I sent 4 men for the four red Deer that are in our Hunters lodges. . . .]
1852
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: lodge ((1))(def. 4a)
Quotations
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.