noun a den or cave.
2. lodge ·noun to drive to shelter; to track to covert.
3. lodge ·noun a collection of objects lodged together.
4. lodge ·noun to lay down; to prostrate.
5. lodge ·noun the chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
6. lodge ·noun to cause to stop or rest in; to implant.
7. lodge ·vi to fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
8. lodge ·vi to come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
9. lodge ·noun to deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
10. lodge ·noun a shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) a shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an indian's lodge.
11. lodge ·noun a small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
12. lodge ·noun the meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
13. lodge ·noun 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.
14. lodge ·noun to give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.
15. lodge ·vi 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.
xvi. lodge ·noun 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.