lodge

1. n. A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge. Source: opted

2. n. A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate. Source: opted

3. n. A den or cave. Source: opted

4. n. The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge. Source: opted

5. n. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college. Source: opted

6. 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. Source: opted

7. n. A collection of objects lodged together. Source: opted

8. 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. Source: opted

9. v. i. To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street. Source: opted

10. v. i. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. Source: opted

11. v. i. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree. Source: opted

12. n. To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold. Source: opted

13. n. To drive to shelter; to track to covert. Source: opted

14. n. To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal. Source: opted

15. n. To cause to stop or rest in; to implant. Source: opted

16. n. To lay down; to prostrate. Source: opted

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