I. ˈläj verb
( -ed/-ing/-s )
Etymology: Middle English loggen, from Old French logier, from loge, n.
transitive verb
1.
a. : to provide temporary quarters for : give a place to sleep to : show hospitality to
there were some in which two or three hundred people … could without difficulty be lodged and fed — T.B.Macaulay
b. : to establish or settle in a place
the troops lodged themselves in the enemy's outworks
c. : to serve as a habitation or shelter for
every house was proud to lodge a knight — John Dryden
d. : to rent lodgings to : accommodate 4b
hoped they would lodge him for the winter
2. : to serve as a receptacle for : contain
a sinus lodging the nerve and artery of the part
3. : to drive or track (a deer) to covert
4. : to beat flat on the ground
though bladed corn be lodged and trees blown down — Shakespeare
5.
a. : to cause to reach an intended or a fixed position or place usually by throwing, discharging, or thrusting
two bullets were found lodged in the table — Newsweek
the limit of my ambition is to lodge a few pebbles where they will be hard to get rid of — Robert Frost
b. : to deposit in passing
a fish bone that was lodged in his throat
6.
a. : to place in custody : incarcerate
his scurrilities may lodge him in the pillory — H.M.Reichard
just 45 days after the perpetration of the crime, every participant was securely lodged behind bars — D.D.Martin
b. : to deposit for safeguard or preservation
agents collect the rent for the land, and lodge it in the bank — G.B.Shaw
wrote a full account of our transaction and lodged it with a trusty man — J.H.Wheelwright
7. : to place or vest especially in a source, means, or agent
we shall reach the best results if we lodge power in a group — B.N.Cardozo
small family unit of the patriarchal type with formal authority lodged in the father — John Dollard
8. : to lay or deposit before a proper authority or person : file , deliver
the defendant then lodged an appeal — Priscilla Hughes
fled to his solicitors to lodge his defense — Clive Arden
strong protests lodged by a number of religious groups — B.L.Fox
9. : to fell (a tree) so as to cause to become caught against another when falling : hang up
intransitive verb
1.
a. : to occupy a place temporarily : stay overnight : sleep
he would lodge on the cot in the spare room upstairs — Elmer Davis
b.
(1) : to have a residence : dwell , stay
lodge over a bookbinder's shop — T.B.Costain
(2) : to be a lodger
the entire year of the major's lodging with them — Glenway Wescott
2. : to seek covert
found the place where the deer had lodged
3. : to come to a rest : stop or settle and remain
bullets pinged … lodged in the walls of houses, zipped through windows — Green Peyton
could hardly have marveled more if real stars had fallen and lodged on his coat — Van Wyck Brooks
it had lodged in his memory — Victor Canning
4. : to fall or lie down — used especially of grass or grain
buckwheat … tends to lodge by late fall — R.E.Trippensee
Synonyms: see reside
II. noun
( -s )
Etymology: Middle English loge, logge, from Old French loge, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German louba, louppea sheltered roof, porch, probably from loub leaf, foliage — more at leaf
1.
a. now chiefly dialect : a small or temporary dwelling ; especially : a rude shelter or abode (as a hut, cabin, tent)
b. obsolete : a place of confinement or detention
books of controversy … have always been confined in a separate lodge from the rest — Jonathan Swift
c. dialect England : outbuilding
2.
a. obsolete : the workshop of a body of freemasons
b. : the meeting place of a branch of a fraternal organization
a Masonic lodge
c. : the body of members composing a branch of a fraternal organization
3.
a. : a house set apart for residence in the hunting or other special season
had a hunting and fishing lodge on the peak — Nard Jones
b. : an inn or resort hotel
gave half-hour magic shows at mountain lodges and dude ranches — Current Biography
c. : a recreation center of a camp or vacation spot often containing dining facilities
in the evening we gathered in the main lodge — Wright Morris
4.
a. : a house on an estate originally for the use of a gamekeeper, caretaker, porter, or similar person but now often used to house guests of the owner
b. : a shelter for an employee (as a gatekeeper or porter of an institution or a factory)
the beautiful fountain … which conceals the lodge of the attendant of the square — O.S.J.Gogarty
c. : the residence of the head of a college (as at Cambridge University)
5. : a den or lair especially of gregarious animals that often involves constructive work
a beaver's lodge
a buck's lodge
6. archaic : a place to put or hold something : a place of temporary sojourn
earth is our lodge , and heaven our home — Isaac Watts
7. : a theater loge
the theater lent its lodge — Robert Browning
8.
a. : a dwelling, cabin, hut, or tent of the No. American Indians : wigwam — compare hogan , tepee , wickiup
b. : the regular occupants of a lodge : a family of No. American Indians
a tribe of 200 lodges comprising about 1000 individuals
9. : a local union ; also : a branch of a national union