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