lodge
Part of speech: verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: government
law
politics
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 (“an arbour, a covered walk-way”).
See also Medieval Latin lobia, laubia; also Old High German louba (“a porch, a gallery”) (German Laube (“bower, arbor”)), Old High German loub (“leaf, foliage”), Old English lēaf (“leaf, foliage”). Doublet of loggia and lobby.
Inflected forms:
form: lodges
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: lodging
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: lodged
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: lodged
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
gloss: To firmly fix in a specified position.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
gloss: To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
gloss: To stay in any place or shelter.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
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.
gloss: To drive (an animal) to covert.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
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: […]
gloss: To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: to lodge a complaint
Powers that are lodged with the cabinet.
He [Harry Maguire] maintains his innocence and has lodged an appeal—which means a retrial and the conviction being set aside in the meantime—[…].
MPs have moved to lodge a parliamentary motion to strip Prince Andrew of his dukedom, in a rarely permitted move in the Commons. […] On Tuesday, the SNP lodged an early-day motion (EDM) to formally remove Prince Andrew’s title as Duke of York, which he has said he will no longer use.
gloss: To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge.
gloss: To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
Derived words: lodgement
lodger
lodge solemn representation
lodging
mislodge
relodge
unlodge
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