1. lodge - Noun
2. lodge - Verb
3. Lodge - Proper noun
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.
The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
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 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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryI've often wish'd that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a year A handsome house to lodge a friend A river at my garden's end A terrace walk, and half a rood Of land set out to plant a wood. Jonathan Swift
Oh to have a lodge in some vast wilderness. Where rumors of oppression and deceit, of unsuccessful and successful wars may never reach me anymore. William Cowper
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
Fish-bone no lodge in a pickney troat alone. Jamaican Proverb
A small house can lodge a hundred friends. Egyptian Proverb
A good tree can lodge ten thousand birds. Myanmar Proverb