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–v.i.2. to live in a rented room in another's house: »
We are merely lodging at present.
3. to get caught or stay in a place without falling or going farther: »The boy's kite lodged in the branches of a big tree.
–v.t.1. to supply with a place to sleep or live in for a time: »Can you lodge us for the weekend?
2. to rent a room or rooms to.3. to put or send into a particular place: »The marksman lodged a bullet in the center of the target.
4. to put for safekeeping: »to lodge money in a bank. I lay all night in the cave where I had lodged my provisions (Jonathan Swift).
5. to put before some authority: »We lodged a complaint with the police.
6. to put (power, authority, or privilege) in a person or thing: »The authority to arrest criminals is lodged with the pole.
SYNONYM(S): vest.7. to beat down or lay flat, as crops by rain or wind.8. to search out the lair of (a deer).–n.1. a) a place to live in: »There is a lodge down the road that rents rooms to travelers.
b) a small or temporary house, such as one used during the hunting season or in summer: »My uncle rents a lodge in the mountains for the summer.
c) a cottage on an estate or the like, such as one for a caretaker or gardener: »The porter of my father's lodge (Emily Dickinson).
2. a) a branch of a secret society: »The lodge holds its meetings on Tuesday nights.
b) the place where it meets: »No one but a member is allowed in the lodge.
3. the den of an animal, especially the large structure built near or in the water by a beaver or an otter.4. U.S. a) a wigwam, tepee, or other dwelling of a North American Indian. b) the number of Indians living in one dwelling.5. the residence of the head of a college at Cambridge University, England, or the vice-chancellor's residence at certain other schools.╂[< Old French loge arbor, covered walk < Germanic (compare Old High German louba hall, roof). See etym. of doublets lobby (Cf. ↑lobby), loge (Cf. ↑loge), loggia. (Cf. ↑loggia)]–lodge´a|ble, adjective.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.
