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Lodge   /lɑdʒ/   Listen
noun
Lodge  n.  
1.
A shelter in which one may rest; as:
(a)
A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge. "Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge (to build)." "O for a lodge in some vast wilderness!"
(b)
A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
(c)
A den or cave.
(d)
The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.
(e)
The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
2.
(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.
3.
A collection of objects lodged together. "The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands."
4.
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).


verb
Lodge  v. t.  
1.
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." "The memory can lodge a greater store of images than all the senses can present at one time."
2.
To drive to shelter; to track to covert. "The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert."
3.
To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.
4.
To cause to stop or rest in; to implant. "He lodged an arrow in a tender breast."
5.
To lay down; to prostrate. "Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down."
6.
To present or bring (information, a complaint) before a court or other authority; as, to lodge a complaint.
To lodge an information, to enter a formal complaint.


Lodge  v. i.  (past & past part. lodged; pres. part. lodging)  
1.
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. "Stay and lodge by me this night." "Something holy lodges in that breast."
2.
To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
3.
To come to a rest; to stop and remain; to become stuck or caught; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree; a piece of meat lodged in his throat.





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"Lodge" Quotes from Famous Books



... passed by, he was told. Looked as if bound for Cheyenne. "No," Cutler said, "he's known there"; and he went on, watching Toussaint's tracks. Within ten miles they veered away from Cheyenne to the southeast, and Cutler struck out on a trail of his own more freely. By midnight he was on Lodge-Pole Creek, sleeping sound among the last trees that he would pass. He slept twelve hours, having gone to bed knowing he must not come into town by daylight. About nine o'clock he arrived, and ...
— The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories • Owen Wister
... can't you have the kindness to take me in? I cannot endure going to a public house to lodge; and I am so lonely. Please, Jude, ...
— Jude the Obscure • Thomas Hardy
... missed. In another second, every sleeper in the house and in the gate-lodge would be out of bed. His night's work was a ...
— Further Adventures of Lad • Albert Payson Terhune
... tea are due the establishment of that unique English institution, the London Coffee House. Inns, where quests were expected to lodge as well as eat; restaurants, in which men tarried only for a single meal; and Beer and Spirit shops, abounded in London; but the Coffee House ushered in a new era, and actually changed the daily habits of a large majority of representative ...
— Tea Leaves • Francis Leggett & Co.
... of whom staid in the room to watch the drove, and the other two slept in an adjoining room. Each of the latter took a female from the drove to lodge with him, as is the common practice of the drivers generally. There is no doubt about this particular instance, for they were seen together. The mud was so thick on the floor where this drove slept, that it was necessary ...
— The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus • American Anti-Slavery Society


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