lodge : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: lodge	by the DICT Development Group
6 results for lodge
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Lodge n English physicist who studied electromagnetic radiation and was a pioneer of radiotelegraphy (1851-1940) Synonym(s): Lodge, Sir Oliver Lodge, Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge 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" Synonym(s): club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order small house at the entrance to the grounds of a country mansion; usually occupied by a gatekeeper or gardener a small (rustic) house used as a temporary shelter Synonym(s): lodge, hunting lodge any of various Native American dwellings Synonym(s): lodge, indian lodge a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers Synonym(s): hostel, hostelry, inn, lodge, auberge v be a lodger; stay temporarily; "Where are you lodging in Paris?" put, fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table"; "stick your thumb in the crack" Synonym(s): lodge, wedge, stick, deposit Antonym(s): dislodge, free file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife" Synonym(s): charge, lodge, file provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester" Synonym(s): lodge, accommodate
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lodge \Lodge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lodged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Lodging}.] 1. 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. --Chaucer. Stay and lodge by me this night. --Shak. Something holy lodges in that breast. --Milton. 2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. --Mortimer. 3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lodge \Lodge\, v. t. [OE. loggen, OF. logier, F. loger. See {Lodge}, n. ] 1. To give shelter or rest to; especially, to furnish a sleeping place for; to harbor; to shelter; hence, to receive; to hold. Every house was proud to lodge a knight. --Dryden. The memory can lodge a greater stone of images that all the senses can present at one time. --Cheyne. 2. To drive to shelter; to track to covert. The deer is lodged; I have tracked her to her covert. --Addison. 3. To deposit for keeping or preservation; as, the men lodged their arms in the arsenal. 4. To cause to stop or rest in; to implant. He lodged an arrow in a tender breast. --Addison. 5. To lay down; to prostrate. Though bladed corn be lodged, and trees blown down. --Shak. {To lodge an information}, to enter a formal complaint.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Lodge \Lodge\, n. [OE. loge, logge, F. loge, LL. laubia porch, gallery, fr. OHG. louba, G. laube, arbor, bower, fr. lab foliage. See {Leaf}, and cf. {Lobby}, {Loggia}.] 1. A shelter in which one may rest; as: (a) A shed; a rude cabin; a hut; as, an Indian's lodge. --Chaucer. Their lodges and their tentis up they gan bigge [to build]. --Robert of Brunne. O for a lodge in some vast wilderness! --Cowper. (b) A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate. --Shak. (c) A den or cave. (d) The meeting room of an association; hence, the regularly constituted body of members which meets there; as, a masonic lodge. (c) The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college. 2. (Mining) 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}. --Raymond. 3. A collection of objects lodged together. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands. --De Foe. 4. 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. {Lodge gate}, a park gate, or entrance gate, near the lodge. See {Lodge}, n., 1 (b) .
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Lodge, SC (town, FIPS 42280) Location: 33.06752 N, 80.95456 W Population (1990): 147 (69 housing units) Area: 8.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 29082
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Lodge a shed for a watchman in a garden (Isa. 1:8). The Hebrew name _melunah_ is rendered "cottage" (q.v.) in Isa. 24:20. It also denotes a hammock or hanging-bed.