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.

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.

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.

A collection of objects lodged together.

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

A den or cave.

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

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

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.