# lodge

Pronunciation: say "LOJ" US /lɑd͡ʒ/, UK /lɒd͡ʒ/

## Verb

1. To be or become firmly fixed in a particular spot.
   - Simple: To become stuck firmly in one place and stay there.
   - _The arrow flew wide and lodged in a fence post._
   - _Splinters that lodge under the skin should be removed quickly._
2. To fix something firmly in a particular place.
   - Simple: To push or fix something firmly into a 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._
3. To formally submit a complaint, appeal or other statement to the proper authority, such as a court.
   - Simple: To officially give a complaint, appeal or other statement to the people in charge, 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._
7. To live as a paying guest in a boarding house, renting a room from the landlord or landlady who lives there.
   - Simple: To rent a room in someone's house and live there for a while.
   - _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._
9. To provide someone with a room or a place to sleep for a time.
   - Simple: To give someone a place to sleep for a while.
   - _The army lodged its officers in the town's grandest houses._
   - _Farmers who lodge seasonal workers must provide clean beds and running water._
11. To stay in some place or shelter for a time.
   - Simple: To stay in a 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._
14. To place money, jewelry, or other valuables somewhere for safekeeping.
   - Simple: To put money or valuable things somewhere safe to keep them.
   - _He lodged the rent money in his account every Friday._
   - _Guests may lodge their jewelry with the front desk overnight._
15. Of grass or grain, to be flattened to the ground, as when it grows too tall or is beaten down by wind.
   - Simple: Of grass or crops, to fall over flat, often because of wind or rain.
   - _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._
16. To flatten grass or grain, beating it down to the ground.
   - Simple: To make grass or crops fall over flat.
   - _The downpour lodged the oats across the whole lower field._
   - _Deer passing through at night lodge the corn in long trails._
21. To drive an animal into covert, the thick cover where it lies hidden.
   - Simple: To chase an animal into thick bushes or woods where it hides.

## Noun

4. A house or cabin kept for leisure pursuits, such as a hunting retreat or summer cabin.
   - Simple: A building used for fun or rest, like a hunting lodge or a 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._
5. A hotel, inn or resort in the countryside.
   - Simple: A hotel or inn in the countryside.
   - _The safari lodge offered guided drives at dawn and dusk._
   - _Most of the lodges in the valley close for the winter._
6. A local branch of certain fraternal societies, such as the Freemasons.
   - Simple: A local group of a club or society like 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._
8. A beaver's shelter, built on a pond or lake.
   - Simple: The shelter a beaver builds for itself 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._
10. A dwelling of the indigenous peoples of the Americas, such as a tipi or wigwam, or, by extension, the household living in one.
   - Simple: A home of Native American people, such as a tipi, or the family that lives in one.
   - _The lodges stood in a wide circle beside the river._
   - _Each lodge in the village sent a hunter with the party._
12. Short for porter's lodge. — Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.
   - Simple: Short for porter's lodge. The small building or room by the gate of a college or big house.
   - _Visitors must report to the lodge before entering the grounds._
   - _Her pigeonhole in the lodge was stuffed with flyers for the drama society._
13. In the United States, a local branch of a labor union. *(US)*
   - Simple: In the US, a local group that is part of a workers' union.
   - _Her grandfather was president of the railroad workers' lodge for twenty years._
   - _Members of Lodge 12 walked off the job on Monday morning._
17. In older accounts, a Native American family or household, counted as the people sharing one dwelling and reckoned at four to six persons.
   - Simple: In the past, a Native American family, counted as the people who shared one home, about four to six.
   - _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._
18. A den or cave, such as the hidden place where a wild animal shelters.
   - Simple: A den or cave where an animal lives.
   - _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._
19. The private rooms of an abbot, a prior, or the head of a college.
   - Simple: The rooms where the head of a monastery or a college lives.
   - _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. A group of things lodged or gathered together in one place.
   - Simple: A group of things that have come to rest together in one place.
22. 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.
   - Simple: In a mine, a wide space beside the main shaft where carts can pass and ore waits to be lifted up.
   - _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._

## 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.

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