- (n.) A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.
- (n.) 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.
- (n.) To drive to shelter; to track to covert.
- (n.) To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
- (v.i.) To rest or remain a lodge house or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; especially, to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street.
- (n.) To lay down; to prostrate.
- (n.) A den or cave.
- (n.) A collection of objects lodged together.
- (n.) To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
- (n.) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
- (n.) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
- (v.i.) To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
- (v.i.) To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- (n.) The chamber of an abbot, prior or head of a college.
- (n.) To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.
- (n.) 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.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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