lodge

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   put, fix, force, or implant

   lodge a bullet in the table

2. 2
   noun

   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. 3
   noun

   A collection of objects lodged together.

   the Maldives, a famous lodge of islands

4. 4
   verb

   To be firmly fixed in a specified position.

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

5. 5
   verb

   To firmly fix in a specified position.

   I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.

6. 6
   verb

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

   The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.

7. 7
   verb

   To stay in any place or shelter.

   Stay and lodge by me this night.

8. 8
   verb

   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: […]

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *laubą Frankish *laub Proto-Germanic *-jô Frankish *-jō Frankish *laubijābor. Early Medieval Latin laubiader. Old French logebor. Middle English logge English lodge From Middle English logge, from Old French loge (“arbour, covered walk-way”). See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“porch, gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.