lodge

SayLOJ/lɑd͡ʒ/UK/lɒd͡ʒ/

Noun plurallodges

22 meanings of lodge

1
stick firmlyverbintransitive
To be or become firmly fixed in a particular spot.
The arrow flew wide and lodged in a fence post.
Splinters that lodge under the skin should be removed quickly.
Similarstick
Note
A preposition of place nearly always follows: a bullet lodges in bark, an arrow in a fence post, a splinter under the skin. The transitive partner shares its past participle, so food lodged between the teeth can be read either way, as something that has lodged there or something that was lodged there.
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stick firmlyverbtransitive
To fix something firmly in a particular place.
Storm waves lodge driftwood high on the rocks each winter.
The climber lodged a metal wedge in the crack and clipped her rope to it.
Similarwedge, jam, embed, fix
Oppositedislodge, loosen
Note
It often appears as a participle after its object, in the pattern have or get something lodged somewhere: I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth, he came home with sand lodged in every pocket. In the active, the subject tends to be a force, as when storm waves lodge driftwood high on the rocks.
3
official complaintverbtransitive
To formally submit a complaint, appeal or other statement to the proper authority, such as a court.
The company plans to lodge an objection to the new road before the council meets.
His lawyers lodged an appeal the morning after the verdict.
Similarfile, submit, register, enter
Oppositewithdraw
Note
Formal paperwork is its territory: complaints, appeals, objections and motions are lodged, handed to the body that must act on them, and that body follows with, as in an appeal lodged with the court. In the Commons, MPs lodge an early-day motion. Outside official settings, people more often simply make a complaint.
4
holiday cabinnouncountable
A house or cabin kept for leisure pursuits, such as a hunting retreat or summer cabin.
The family's old lodge in the mountains has no electricity and a wood stove.
The lodges along the river were built by wealthy families as summer retreats.
Similarcabin, chalet, retreat
Note
The word began as a shelter rather than a house: Old French loge meant an arbor or a covered walkway. Something of that lightness survives in a lodge built for a season or a sport rather than for everyday life, and the purpose usually comes first, as in a hunting lodge, a ski lodge or a fishing lodge.
5
nouncountable
A hotel, inn or resort in the countryside.
The safari lodge offered guided drives at dawn and dusk.
Most of the lodges in the valley close for the winter.
Similarinn, resort, hotel
6
society branchnouncountable
A local branch of certain fraternal societies, such as the Freemasons.
He rose to become master of his lodge after twenty years as a member.
Lodges across the state raised money for the children's hospital.
Similarbranch, chapter
7
rent a roomverbintransitive
To live as a paying guest in a boarding house, renting a room from the landlord or landlady who lives there.
For two years she lodged in a narrow house on the edge of town, taking her meals with the landlady.
Young clerks who could not afford rooms of their own would lodge with respectable families.
Similarboard, room
Note
This is the lodger's verb: you lodge with a landlady, in a street, at a house, as Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street. It is narrower than the general sense of staying somewhere, since the rent and the landlord under the same roof are part of the meaning; renting a whole place of your own is not lodging.
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beaver homenouncountable
A beaver's shelter, built on a pond or lake.
A beaver lodge is entered from underwater, which keeps predators out.
Once the beavers moved upstream, their old lodge slowly sank back into the pond.
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give a roomverbtransitive
To provide someone with a room or a place to sleep for a time.
The army lodged its officers in the town's grandest houses.
Farmers who lodge seasonal workers must provide clean beds and running water.
Similarhouse, accommodate, quarter, billet
10
Native American homenouncountable
A dwelling of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, such as a tipi or wigwam, or, by extension, the household living in one.
The lodges stood in a wide circle beside the river.
Each lodge in the village sent a hunter with the party.

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stay for a timeverbintransitive
To stay in some place or shelter for a time.
Crews on the long route lodge in a hostel at the far end of the line.
Pilgrims lodged wherever they could, in barns, chapels and the houses of strangers.
Similarstay, stop, sojourn, quarter
Note
The general verb reaches from Shakespeare's "Stay and lodge by me this night" in Henry VI to train crews who must lodge away from home, and it stretches to things that dwell in people: in John Milton's masque of 1634, "Something holy lodges in that breast." Stay over and stop are the everyday equivalents.
12
gate roomnounabbreviationellipsis
Short for porter's lodge.
Visitors must report to the lodge before entering the grounds.
Her pigeonhole in the lodge was stuffed with flyers for the drama society.
Note
Porter's lodge loses its first word in everyday use, and Stephen Fry's The Liar (1991) shows the shift in two sentences: a student heads for the porter's lodge, and at the lodge he clears his pigeonhole. At British and Canadian colleges that is the lodge's daily role, the place where mail waits and visitors report.
13
union branchnounUScountable
In the United States, a local branch of a labor union.
Her grandfather was president of the railroad workers' lodge for twenty years.
Members of Lodge 12 walked off the job on Monday morning.
Similarlocal, branch, chapter
Note
American labor speech uses the word for a union's local branch, often with a number attached, as in Lodge 12 or the railroad workers' lodge. It parallels the fraternal meaning, in which each local branch of a society such as the Freemasons is a lodge, and outside the United States the usage is unfamiliar.
14
keep safeverbtransitive
To place money, jewelry, or other valuables somewhere for safekeeping.
He lodged the rent money in his account every Friday.
Guests may lodge their jewelry with the front desk overnight.
Similardeposit, leave
Oppositewithdraw
15
flatten (crops)verbintransitive
Of grass or grain, to be flattened to the ground, as when it grows too tall or is beaten down by wind.
Wheat that lodges just before harvest is hard to cut and often rots where it lies.
Farmers choose short-strawed varieties so the crop will not lodge in a wet summer.
Note
Farmers use it of standing crops, usually with weather as the culprit: heavy rain made the wheat lodge. The past participle works as an adjective, as in lodged wheat or a lodged field, and growers pick short-strawed varieties so the crop will not lodge. The causative partner puts the storm in subject position: the downpour lodged the oats.
16
flatten (crops)verbtransitive
To flatten grass or grain, beating it down to the ground.
The downpour lodged the oats across the whole lower field.
Deer passing through at night lodge the corn in long trails.
Similarflatten
17
household countnounhistoricalcountable
In older accounts, a Native American family or household, counted as the people sharing one dwelling and reckoned at four to six persons.
The agent's report put the band at sixty lodges, roughly three hundred people.
The surveyor reckoned a lodge at five persons when he counted the camp.
Similarhousehold, family
Note
Older reports measured a camp or tribe by its dwellings rather than its people, and this was the counting word they used: two hundred lodges meant about a thousand individuals, at four to six persons a lodge. Modern accounts count people directly, so a figure in lodges needs converting before it can be compared.
18
animal dennouncountable
A den or cave, such as the hidden place where a wild animal shelters.
The otters' lodge lay hidden among the roots of the bank.
A fox's lodge may have several entrances, one of them well away from the others.
Similarden, lair, burrow
19
head's roomsnouncountable
The private rooms of an abbot, a prior, or the head of a college.
The prior's lodge had its own chapel and a garden walled off from the cloister.
Visiting scholars are sometimes put up in the lodge as guests of the president.
20
collectionnouncountable
A group of things lodged or gathered together in one place.
the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands
1720, [Daniel Defoe], The Life
Note
The image is of things that have come to rest together and stayed, the noun to the verb for being fixed. Daniel Defoe uses it of the Maldives in Captain Singleton (1720), a famous lodge of islands: a whole archipelago pictured as something the sea had set down in one place.
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chase into coververbtransitive
To drive an animal into covert, the thick cover where it lies hidden.
Note
The chase gave each resting animal its own verb, and John Mayer's The Sportsman's Directory (1819) lists them: the stag is harbored, the buck lodged, the fox kenneled. Lodged describes a buck lying up in cover, and to lodge one is to drive it there; the sense belongs to that old hunting vocabulary.
22
miningnouncountable
In mining, the widened space where a level meets the shaft, where wagons can pass one another and ore is set down to be hoisted.
Miners stacked the day's ore in the lodge for the night shift to hoist.
Each level opened onto a lodge cut wide enough for loaded wagons to pass.
Note
A mine's levels are horizontal tunnels and its shaft the vertical passage that serves them, so the lodge is the widened junction where a level meets the shaft: an underground siding where loaded wagons pass and ore waits to be hoisted. Miners also called the same space a platt.

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Origin

From Middle English logge, from Old French loge ("arbor, covered walkway"). Compare Medieval Latin lobia, laubia, Old High German louba ("porch, gallery"; modern German Laube, "bower, arbor"), and Old High German loub and Old English lēaf ("leaf, foliage"). It is a doublet of loggia and lobby.