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A hut; a cottage; a house affording merely the simplest accommodations; a temporary habitation; with reference to the North American Indians, a hut constructed of poles and branches, skins, or rough boards.
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A small house in a park, forest, or demesne; a gate-house; also, a small house or cottage connected with a larger house: as, a porter's lodge.
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Any covered place of shelter, as a den or cave in which wild beasts lurk; in hunting, the shelter of the buck or doe.
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The place in which a body of workmen were employed; a working-place or workshop, especially one of masons or builders.
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A place of meeting for members of a secret society, as that of the Freemasons or the Odd Fellows; hence, a body of members of such a society meeting in one place, in either an individual or a representative capacity, in the latter case constituting a district or a grand lodge; also, among the Freemasons, a meeting, session, or convention of such a body.
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A collection of similar objects situated close to one another.
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In mining, the bottom of a shaft or of any other cavity where the water of the mine has an opportunity to collect, so that it may be pumped out. The word sump is much more commonly used in the United States.
To furnish with a lodge or habitation, especially a temporary one; provide with a transient or temporary place of abode; harbor.
To set, lay, place, or deposit, as in a place of rest, or for preservation or future action: as, to lodge money in a bank; to lodge a complaint in court.
To find an abode for; assign a residence to; put in possession.
To plant or implant; infix; fix or settle; place: as, to lodge an arrow in one's breast.
To bring to a lodgment; beat down; lay flat: said especially of vegetation.
To entrap, as in a place of lodgment.
To have a lodge or an abode, especially a temporary one; be furnished with shelter and accommodation.
To have an abiding-place; dwell; have a fixed position.
To be deposited or fixed; settle: as, a seed lodged in a crevice of a rock.
To be beaten down or laid flat, as grain.
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In Cambridge, England, the residence of the head of a college.
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In mining, a cabin at the pit-head for workmen.