lodge
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (US) A local chapter of a trade union.US
2. (mining) 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.
3. An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.Examples: "The tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals."historical
verb (English)
1. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.Examples: "The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree."intransitive
2. (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.Examples: "I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth."transitive
3. (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.Examples: "The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street."intransitive
4. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.Examples: "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."Synonyms: stay overintransitive
5. (transitive) To drive (an animal) to covert.Examples: "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: […]"transitive
6. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.transitive
Definition source: Wiktionary