lodge

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1. 1.(Mining) 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. Raymond.
2. 2.A collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. De Foe.
3. 3.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. Lodge gate, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See Lodge, n., 1 (b).
4. 4.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. Chaucer. Stay and lodge by me this night. Shak. Something holy lodges in that breast. Milton .
5. 5.To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. Mortimer.
6. 6.To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
7. 7.To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold. Every house was proud to lodge a knight. Dryden. The memory can lodge a greater stone of images that all the senses can present at one time. Cheyne.
8. 8.To drive to shelter; to track to covert. The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert. Addison.
9. 9.To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
10. 10.To cause to stop or rest in; to implant. He lodged an arrow in a tender breast. Addison.
11. 11.To lay down; to prostrate. Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down. Shak. To lodge an information, to enter a formal complaint.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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• What is 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. Raymond called?
• What is a collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. De Foe called?
• What is to fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. Mortimer called?
• What is to come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree called?
• What is to drive to shelter; to track to covert. The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert. Addison called?
• What is to deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal called?
• What is to cause to stop or rest in; to implant. He lodged an arrow in a tender breast. Addison called?
• What is to lay down; to prostrate. Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down. Shak. To lodge an information, to enter a formal complaint called?