lodge

noun

1. A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
2. (abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis)Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.

   “[H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.”

3. A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
4. (US)A local chapter of a trade union.
5. A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
6. A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
7. A den or cave.
8. The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
9. The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt.
10. A collection of objects lodged together.

    “the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands”

11. (broadly)A Native American home, such as tipi or wigwam.
12. (historical)A Native American home, such as tipi or wigwam.

    “The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.”

verb

1. (intransitive)To be firmly fixed in a specified position.

   “The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.”

2. (transitive)To firmly fix in a specified position.

   “I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.”

3. (intransitive)To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.

   “The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.”

4. (intransitive)To stay in any place or shelter.

   “Stay and lodge by me this night.”

   “Something holy lodges in that breast.”

   “It then becomes necessary for the men to lodge away from home, and at places on the system where large numbers require accommodation regularly, the L.M.S.R. maintains 43 permanent staff hostels.”

5. (transitive)To drive (an animal) to covert.

   “This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the buck lodged, the fox kennelled, the badger earthed, the otter vented or watched, the hare formed, and the rabbit set. When you find and rouse up the stag and buck, they are said to be imprimed: […]”

6. (transitive)To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
7. (transitive)To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
8. (transitive)To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).

   “to lodge a complaint”

   “He [Harry Maguire] maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal—which means a retrial and the conviction being set aside in the meantime—[…].”

   “MPs have moved to lodge a parliamentary motion to strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom, in a rarely permitted move in the Commons. […] On Tuesday, the SNP lodged an early-day motion (EDM) to formally remove Prince Andrew’s title as Duke of York, which he has said he will no longer use.”

9. (intransitive)To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

   “The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.”

10. (transitive)To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.

name

1. (countable, uncountable)A surname.
2. (countable, uncountable)A place in the United States:
3. (countable, uncountable)A place in the United States:
4. (countable, uncountable)A place in the United States:
5. (countable, uncountable)A place in the United States: