Noun
a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers

Noun
any of various native American dwellings

Noun
a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter

Noun
small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener

Noun
a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today"

Noun
English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940)

Verb
file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife"

Verb
fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"

Verb
provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester"

Verb
be a lodger; stay temporarily; "Where are you lodging in Paris?"

n.
A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.

n.
A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.

n.
A den or cave.

n.
The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge.

n.
The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college.

n.
The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt.

n.
A collection of objects lodged together.

n.
A family of North American Indians, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge, -- as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons; as, the tribe consists of about two hundred lodges, that is, of about a thousand individuals.

v. i.
To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street.

v. i.
To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

v. i.
To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.

n.
To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.

n.
To drive to shelter; to track to covert.

n.
To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal.

n.
To cause to stop or rest in; to implant.

n.
To lay down; to prostrate.

Lodge

Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build].

O for a lodge in some vast wilderness!

The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands.

Lodge

Stay and lodge by me this night.

Something holy lodges in that breast.

Lodge

Every house was proud to lodge a knight.

The memory can lodge a greater stone of images that all the senses can present at one time.

The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert.

He lodged an arrow in a tender breast.

Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down.

A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge.

To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to lodge in York Street.

To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold.