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