Definition of "lodge"

lodge

/lɒd͡ʒ/

noun
plural lodges
1. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
2. (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
  Quotations
  ...he walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge... At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.
  1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, London: Heinemann, page 54
3. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
4. (US) A local chapter of a trade union.
5. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
6. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
7. A den or cave.
8. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
9. (mining) 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.
10. A collection of objects lodged together.
  Quotations
  the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
  1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: […] J. Brotherton, […], J. Graves […], A. Dodd, […], and T. Warner, […]
11. An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.
  1. (historical) A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons.
verb
third-person singular simple present lodges, present participle lodging, simple past and past participle lodged
1. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
2. (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
3. (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
4. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
  Quotations
  Stay and lodge by me this night.
  c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene i]
  Something holy lodges in that breast.
  1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903,
  It then becomes necessary for the men to lodge away from home, and at places on the system where large numbers require accommodation regularly, the L.M.S.R. maintains 43 permanent staff hostels.
  1947 March and April, “L.M.S.R. Hostels for Trainmen”, in Railway Magazine, page 75
5. (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.
  Quotations
  This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […]
  1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion
6. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
7. (transitive) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
8. (transitive) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  Quotations
  He maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal - which means a retrial and the conviction being set aside in the meantime
  2020 October 14, Phil McNulty, “England 0-1 Denmark: 'Harry Maguire looked devoid of confidence in Nations League loss'”, in BBC Sport‎
9. (intransitive) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
10. (transitive) To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.

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