lodged

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of lodge.

   The bullet had lodged in the wall just above the door.

   As a student he lodged with an elderly widow near the campus.

   Note

   One spelling serves as the simple past (a bone lodged in his throat) and as the participle (an appeal was lodged). The words around it do the sorting: lodged in or under means stuck fast; lodged with a person means staying in their home as a paying guest; lodged with a court or another authority means formally handed in.

2. 2
   adjective

   In heraldry, of a deer or other beast of the chase: lying down with the head raised, as couchant describes a lion or other beast of prey.

   The arms show a stag lodged beneath a spreading oak.

   A white hart lodged on a green mound appears on the family's seal.

   Note

   Heraldry keeps separate posture words for hunted and hunting animals: a stag lying with its head up is lodged, while a lion in the same pose is couchant. In blazon the adjective follows its noun, so a shield shows a stag lodged, not a lodged stag. The same deer standing and facing the viewer is at gaze.

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