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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.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Lodge" Quotes from Famous Books



... having been polluted some years before by an unnatural murder, was, according to the zeal of those people, looked on as profane, and therefore had been applied 20 to common use, and all the ornaments and furniture carried away. In this edifice it was determined I should lodge. The great gate fronting to the north was about four feet high, and almost two feet wide, through which I could easily creep. On each side of the gate was a small window, not 25 above six inches from the ground; into that on the left side the king's ...
— Story Hour Readings: Seventh Year • E.C. Hartwell
... "Somebody's hunting-lodge," muttered Laval. "They have gone up the hill to see what the explosion meant. That was a lantern we saw moving among ...
— With Haig on the Somme • D. H. Parry
... she was duly interested, even if a trifle shy of the red brother who stared so fixedly. She entered a lodge with Bill, and listened to him make laundry arrangements in broken English with a withered old beldame whose features resembled a ham that had hung overlong in the smokehouse. Two or three blanketed bucks ...
— North of Fifty-Three • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... each year for the relief of widows and orphans. The report for the present year shows that 6,212 families were assisted at an expense of $141,646; and $50,540 were paid for the education of orphans. The Indiana lodge erected a monument in Indianapolis to Vice-President of the United States Schuyler Colfax, the ...
— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various
... a scheming mind. Before she left this morning she asked me if I thought a little house could be gotten outside the town, for a moderate rent. I believe she would not hesitate to take such a house, and board and lodge ...
— The Girl at Cobhurst • Frank Richard Stockton


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