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1.NounA building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
2.NounEllipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially as a college mailroom.
3.NounA local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
4.NounA local chapter of a trade union.
5.NounA rural hotel or resort, an inn.
6.NounA beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
7.NounA den or cave.
8.NounThe chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
9.NounThe space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
10.NounA collection of objects lodged together.
11.NounA Native American home, such as tipi or wigwam.
The people who live in one such home; a household.
A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons."The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals."
12.NounThe people who live in one such home; a household.
13.NounA family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons."The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals."
14.VerbTo be firmly fixed in a specified position."The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree."
15.VerbTo firmly fix in a specified position."I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth."
16.VerbTo stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady."The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street."
17.VerbTo stay in any place or shelter.
18.VerbTo drive (an animal) to covert.
19.VerbTo supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
20.VerbTo put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
21.VerbTo place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.)."to lodge a complaint"
22.VerbTo become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind."The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge."
23.VerbTo cause to flatten, as grass or grain.