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(of a deer or the like) represented as lying down: a stag lodged.
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Lodged
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noun
1.
a small, makeshift or crude shelter or habitation, as of boughs, poles, skins, earth, or rough boards; cabin or hut.
2.
a house used as a temporary residence, as in the hunting season.
3.
a summer cottage.
4.
a house or cottage, as in a park or on an estate, occupied by a gatekeeper, caretaker, gardener, or other employee.
5.
EXPANDa resort hotel, motel, or inn.
6.
the main building of a camp, resort hotel, or the like.
7.
the meeting place of a branch of certain fraternal organizations.
8.
the members composing the branch: The lodge is planning a picnic.
9.
any of various North American Indian dwellings, as a tepee or long house. Compare earth lodge.
10.
the Indians who live in such a dwelling or a family or unit of North American Indians.
11.
the home of a college head at Cambridge University, England.
12.
COLLAPSEthe den of an animal or group of animals, especially beavers.
verb (used without object)
13.
to have a habitation or quarters, especially temporarily, as in a hotel, motel, or inn: We lodged in a guest house.
14.
to live in rented quarters in another's house: He lodged with a local family during his college days.
15.
to be fixed, implanted, or caught in a place or position; come to rest; stick: The bullet lodged in his leg.
verb (used with object)
16.
to furnish with a habitation or quarters, especially temporarily; accommodate: Can you lodge us for the night?
17.
to furnish with a room or rooms in one's house for payment; have as a lodger: a boardinghouse that lodges oil workers.
18.
to serve as a residence, shelter, or dwelling for; shelter: The château will lodge the ambassador during his stay.
19.
to put, store, or deposit, as in a place, for storage or keeping; stow: to lodge one's valuables in a hotel safe.
20.
EXPANDto bring or send into a particular place or position.
21.
to house or contain: The spinal canal lodges and protects the spinal cord.
22.
to vest (power, authority, etc.).
23.
to put or bring (information, a complaint, etc.) before a court or other authority.
24.
to beat down or lay flat, as vegetation in a storm: A sudden hail had lodged the crops.
25.
COLLAPSEto track (a deer) to its lair.
Related forms
lodge·a·ble, adjective
Synonyms
8. club, association, society. 16. house, quarter. 20. place, set, plant, settle.
8. club, association, society. 16. house, quarter. 20. place, set, plant, settle.
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Word Origin & History
lodge
early 13c., from O.Fr. loge "arbor, covered walk" (Mod.Fr. "hut, cabin, lodge box at a theater"), from Frankish *laubja "shelter" (cognate with O.H.G. louba "porch, gallery," Ger. Laube "bower, arbor"), likely originally "shelter of foliage," from the root of leaf. "Hunter's
EXPANDcabin" sense is first recorded mid-15c. Sense of "local branch of a society" is first recorded 1680s, from 14c. logge "workshop of masons." The verb is early 13c., "to stay in a lodge, to put someone up in a lodge," from O.Fr. logier, from loge. Sense of "to get a thing in the intended place, to make something stick" is from 1610s.
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