noun
- A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
- Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially as a college mailroom.
- A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
- A local chapter of a trade union.
- A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
- A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
- A den or cave.
- The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
- The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
- A collection of objects lodged together.
- An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
verb
- To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
- To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
- To stay in any place or shelter.
- To drive (an animal) to covert.
- To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
- To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
- To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
- To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
- To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
Synonyms: stay over, stop
Pronunciation
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