Shelter for humans or domesticated animals and livestock based on a hole or depression dug into the ground.
1The ceremony generally took place in a circular dwelling known as an " earth lodge."
2Dead bodies in rough boxes lie on the ground on a knoll not far from our house, and near by is an old-style earth lodge.
3People know that the buffaloes live in earth lodges; so they never dance the buffalo dance vainly.
4They saw the earth lodges as of old, thickly clustered along the flats of the Missouri, among their rustling maize-fields.
5The sides of this funnel were rugged rock, and in the banks of earth lodged here and there upon projections, a scrubby vegetation grew.
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