Definition of Lodge

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Definition of Lodge

Lodge

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

A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.

A den or cave.

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

The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

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.

A collection of objects lodged together.

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.

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.

To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.

To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.

To drive to shelter; to track to covert.

To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.

To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.

To lay down; to prostrate.

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Lodge Quotations

Before I was famous, when I was just working in Gilbert's Lodge, everything was moving in slow motion.
Eminem

Hypocrites in the Church? Yes, and in the lodge and at the home. Don't hunt through the Church for a hypocrite. Go home and look in the mirror. Hypocrites? Yes. See that you make the number one less.
Billy Sunday

I found Spotted Tail's lodge. He invited me to enter.
Buffalo Bill

I just sold a farm in Missouri, and I own a ski lodge in Colorado with some Honolulu partners.
James MacArthur

At the lodge the chief gave me many particulars which were relative to the late visit of the Spaniards.
Zebulon Pike

An Indian's dress of deer skins, which is wet a hundred times upon his back, dries soft; and his lodge also, which stands in the rains, and even through the severity of winter, is taken down as soft and as clean as when it was first put up.
George Catlin

Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge.
Sarah Vowell

There's an air of mystery around the Masons, but the reality is that they're mostly a bunch of veterans getting drunk in a lodge that they've built to look like a temple. It's just a bunch of guys trying to get away from their wives.
Jimmy Kimmel

Lodge Translations

lodge in French is consigner
lodge in Italian is depositare
lodge in Norwegian is losje, losjere, hytte
lodge in Spanish is ubicar

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