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lodge

/lɒdʒ/
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noun

  • A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.
  • Short for porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially as a college mailroom.
  • A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.
  • A local chapter of a trade union.
  • A rural hotel or resort, an inn.
  • A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake.
  • A den or cave.
  • The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.
  • 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.
  • A collection of objects lodged together.
  • An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household.

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

verb

  • To be firmly fixed in a specified position.

    "I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth."

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

    "The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street."

  • To stay in any place or shelter.
  • To drive (an animal) to covert.
  • To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
  • To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
  • To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
  • To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

    "The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge."

  • To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
Synonyms:stay overstop

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