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.