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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lodge
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bullet is lodged in sb's chest/brain etc (=is stuck in that part of the body)
▪ Surgeons are trying to remove a bullet lodged in his neck.
file/lodge a complaintformal (= make a complaint)
▪ She filed a complaint against several of her colleagues.
lodge an objection (=formally make an objection)
▪ Residents have lodged an objection to the new development.
lodge/file/bring an appeal (=make an appeal)
▪ Mr Sarhadi, who has lived here for three years, has lodged an appeal against extradition.
lodging house
make/lodge a formal complaint
▪ Mr Kelly has lodged a formal complaint against the police.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
appeal
▪ As a precaution, the Jarrett's accountant lodged a formal appeal.
▪ Hakkar lodged an appeal, which was turned down.
▪ Twenty years later he decided to lodge an Entitlement Appeal against the decision, and nominated the Association to represent him.
▪ The Wimbledon midfield player officially lodged an appeal with the Football Association against his £20,000 fine and six-month suspended ban.
▪ Mr Fitzgerald immediately lodged an appeal.
▪ In other cases it means the period during which an appeal can be lodged.
▪ Ceausescu's lawyers immediately lodged an appeal against the verdict.
application
▪ Go and see the plans for any new development if they have been lodged as a formal application.
▪ The partners in the development have started a public consultation process ahead of lodging the planning application.
▪ Ocean has lodged planning applications for a waste-to-energy facility in south London and a toxic waste incinerator near Middlesbrough.
▪ Such a ban would make the government liable to massive compensation to the 20,000 speculators who have already lodged planning applications.
▪ If two people are struck by the same brainwave, it will belong to the one who lodges a patent application first.
board
▪ In 1989 the board and lodging allowance varied from £140 to £230 a week depending upon the category of resident.
claim
▪ Nurses lodge 10 Nurses are on a collision course with the Government after lodging a claim for a ten percent pay rise.
▪ Guppy and Marsh, having lodged their bogus insurance claim, flew back to New York on Concorde.
▪ Pamela Baptiste, a former consular officer at the high commission in St Lucia, has lodged a claim of unfair dismissal.
▪ He points out that customers must first complain to the Tessa provider before lodging a claim with the ombudsman.
▪ Stoke have lodged a counter claim, alleging failure to repay loans.
complaint
▪ But her family have now lodged a formal complaint with the Police Complaints Authority which is to investigate.
▪ Keenan certainly bided his time before coming forward to lodge his complaints.
▪ If Sidacai cared to lodge a formal complaint, the jailers would suffer punishment. probably he would not complain.
▪ She agrees to go the city council and lodge a complaint.
▪ A NORTH-EAST woman has lodged a complaint after an ambulance took almost an hour to arrive at an accident.
▪ They've lodged an official complaint against the police, who they say were treating the case as suicide.
▪ The couple have lodged an official complaint against Gloucestershire police.
▪ When the public prosecutor appealed against that ruling, Pasko lodged a complaint in an attempt to clear his name.
food
▪ These travellers normally require food, lodging, hospitality and service of a good standard.
▪ Thirty-five dollars per day per person includes all his services as well as food, lodging and trekking permits.
▪ This Sunday everyone is worried because the Pastor has just given Mrs Cigans a bill for food and lodging.
▪ She turned into an expert at coaxing food and lodging invitations out of perfect strangers.
house
▪ The second might be found in greater numbers among the inhabitants of lodging houses in great cities.
▪ There was a small hotel, or lodging house.
▪ Back once more, Vincent moved to another village, Cuesmes, where he lodged in a house divided in two.
▪ As a punitive measure, the mayor closed black lodging houses and hotels at public insistence.
▪ His vision included slum brigades, lodging houses, eating houses, legal aid and the first labour exchange.
▪ The Abbey's property consisted largely of lodging houses in Crown Street, interspersed with public houses, stables and workshops.
▪ These might include some bed and breakfast hotels, lodging houses or certain types of hostel.
objection
▪ The change of heart followed an outcry by the public who lodged objections to the scheme.
▪ No objections have been received and the period for lodging objections has now elapsed.
▪ Opponents to the opt-out now have a chance to lodge objections to the Education Secretary.
protest
▪ This prompted the Foreign Ministry in Bonn to lodge a protest with the Czechoslovak ambassador.
▪ When Mansell then returned to the Williams garage and asked the team to lodge a protest, his request was refused.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ His wife and kids were forced to lodge with friends until they found a place of their own.
▪ Kim lodged with a local family the summer she studied in Paris.
▪ Mrs Gould and her niece are lodging in the Rising Sun.
▪ This building was used to lodge prisoners of war.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A mood of pessimism had lodged in him.
▪ A raisin lodged unattractively between Heather's front teeth but I chose not to tell her about it.
▪ Go and see the plans for any new development if they have been lodged as a formal application.
▪ Nurses lodge 10 Nurses are on a collision course with the Government after lodging a claim for a ten percent pay rise.
▪ Opponents to the opt-out now have a chance to lodge objections to the Education Secretary.
▪ Protests were lodged by Tyrrell, Fittipaldi's Copersucar team and, most urgently, by Ferrari.
II.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
hunting
▪ Tradition claims that King John used it as hunting lodge.
▪ For example, Miss Cunnington cites a small house at Pamphill, Dorset, which may have once been a fourteenth-century hunting lodge.
▪ Bedrooms are tastefully furnished and combine all modern comforts and facilities with the gracious style of a Tyrolean hunting lodge.
▪ Alternatively, join us for an optional excursion to Vienna Woods, including a trip to the hunting lodge at Mayerling.
masonic
▪ They blended in like Dolly Parton in a Masonic lodge.
▪ Friends from the masonic lodge whose Master he had been.
■ NOUN
house
▪ A large iron gateway sagged permanently open, beside a lodge house and a cattle grid.
▪ A small lodge house that used to be some sort of appendage of Burnage Court is currently for sale through Hamptons.
sweat
▪ Apaches from four reservations constructed several structures: a ramada, a sweat lodge and a wickiup covered with bunched yucca strips.
■ VERB
build
▪ The Guinness family, the last owners of the estate, had also built a fanciful fishing lodge beside the castle.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ a Masonic lodge
▪ a ski lodge
▪ Lake Star Lodge has rooms for a reasonable price.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Apaches from four reservations constructed several structures: a ramada, a sweat lodge and a wickiup covered with bunched yucca strips.
▪ For the isolated detached property, situated in a few acres of land, is a cemetery lodge.
▪ He made everything you see, the Tuthanach, the lodge ... the totems.
▪ She brushed by him and dashed up the stairs of the lodge.
▪ The lodge itself, he said, was nothing fancy.
▪ There was a bell-pull connected up to a small porter's lodge inside.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lodge

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 store of images than 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.

  6. To present or bring (information, a complaint) before a court or other authority; as, to lodge a complaint.

    To lodge an information, to enter a formal complaint.

Lodge

Lodge \Lodge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Lodged (l[o^]jd); p. pr. & vb. n. Lodging (l[o^]j"[i^]ng).]

  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; to become stuck or caught; as, the bullet lodged in the bark of a tree; a piece of meat lodged in his throat.

Lodge

Lodge \Lodge\ (l[o^]j), 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:

    1. 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.

    2. A small dwelling house, as for a gamekeeper or gatekeeper of an estate.
      --Shak.

    3. A den or cave.

    4. 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) .

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lodge

c.1200, loggen, "to encamp, set up camp;" c. 1300 "to put in a certain place," from Old French logier "lodge; find lodging for" (Modern French loger), from loge (see lodge (n.)). From late 14c. as "to dwell, live; to have temporary accomodations; to provide (someone) with sleeping quarters; to get lodgings." Sense of "to get a thing in the intended place, to make something stick" is from 1610s. Related: Lodged; lodging.

lodge

mid-13c. in surnames and place names; late 13c. as "small building or hut," from Old French loge "arbor, covered walk; hut, cabin, grandstand at a tournament," from Frankish *laubja "shelter" (cognate with Old High German louba "porch, gallery," German Laube "bower, arbor"), from Proto-Germanic *laubja- "shelter," likely originally "shelter of foliage," or "roof made from bark," from root of leaf (n.).\n

\n"Hunter's cabin" sense is first recorded late 14c. Sense of "local branch of a society" is first recorded 1680s, from mid-14c. logge "workshop of masons." Also used of certain American Indian buildings, hence lodge-pole (1805). Feste of Logges (c.1400) was a Middle English rendition of the Old Testament Jewish Feast of Tabernacles.

Wiktionary
lodge

n. 1 A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin. 2 porter or caretaker rooms at or near the main entrance to a building or an estate. 3 A local chapter of some fraternity, such as freemason. 4 (context US English) A local chapter of a trade union. 5 A rural hotel or resort, an inn. 6 A beaver shelter constructed on a pond or lake. 7 A den or cave. 8 The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college. 9 (context mining English) 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. 10 A collection of objects lodged together. 11 A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To be firmly fixed in a specified position. 2 (context intransitive English) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady. 3 (context intransitive English) To stay in any place or shelter. 4 (context transitive English) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time. 5 (context transitive English) To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety. 6 (context transitive English) To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authority (such as courts, etc.). 7 (context intransitive English) To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind.

WordNet
lodge
  1. v. be a lodger; stay temporarily; "Where are you lodging in Paris?"

  2. fix, force, or implant; "lodge a bullet in the table" [syn: wedge, stick, deposit] [ant: dislodge]

  3. file a formal charge against; "The suspect was charged with murdering his wife" [syn: charge, file]

  4. provide housing for; "We are lodging three foreign students this semester" [syn: accommodate]

Gazetteer
Lodge, SC -- U.S. town in South Carolina
Population (2000): 114
Housing Units (2000): 59
Land area (2000): 3.141949 sq. miles (8.137610 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.141949 sq. miles (8.137610 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42280
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.068675 N, 80.957689 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 29082
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Lodge, SC
Lodge
Wikipedia
Lodge

Lodge is originally a term for a relatively small building, often associated with a larger one. Lodge or The Lodge may refer to:

Lodge (company)

Lodge Manufacturing is a manufacturer of cast iron cookware based in South Pittsburg, Tennessee. Founded in 1896 by Joseph Lodge, Lodge Manufacturing is one of America's oldest cookware companies in continuous operation. It is still owned and managed by the descendants of the Lodge family. Most cast iron sold by Lodge is produced in its foundry in South Pittsburg, which has been in operation since the company was founded. Lodge Manufacturing is the only remaining manufacturer of cast iron cookware in the United States.

Lodge (album)

Lodge is the only EP, and the fourth release from Beaver, released on Man's Ruin Records. It is out of print.

Lodge (surname)

Lodge is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Alexander Lodge (1881–1938), British engineer
  • Carron O Lodge (c. 1883 – 1910), British figure and landscape painter
  • David Lodge (author) (born 1935), British author
  • Sir Edmund Lodge (1756–1839), British Officer of Arms and author
  • Eleanor Constance Lodge (1869–1936), historian and Principal of Westfield College, London
  • Francis Graham Lodge (1908–2002), British black-and-white artist
  • George Cabot Lodge, (1873–1909), American poet
  • George Edward Lodge (1860–1954), British birds artist
  • John Lodge (musician) (born 1945), English musician, best known as the bassist and singer of The Moody Blues
  • John C. Lodge (1862–1950), mayor of Detroit, Michigan
  • Henry Cabot Lodge (1850–1924), an early 20th-century U.S. Senator
  • Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. (1902–1985), grandson, mid-20th century U.S. Senator
  • Jimmy Lodge (1895–1971), English professional footballer
  • Sir Oliver Lodge (1851–1940), British physicist and writer who patented radio frequency tuning
  • Oliver W F Lodge (1878–1955), poet and author
  • Sir Richard Lodge (1855–1936), historian
  • Samuel Lodge (1829–1897), clergyman and author
  • Stephen Lodge (author), American screenwriter and actor
  • Stephen Lodge (referee), retired English football official
  • Thomas Lodge (c. 1558–1625), dramatist and writer
  • Tom Lodge (born 1936), author and radio broadcaster

Fictional characters:

  • Hiram Lodge, character from Archie, father of Veronica Lodge
  • Veronica Lodge, character from Archie, daughter of Hiram Lodge
Lodge (Fanu and Bill Laswell album)

Lodge is a collaborative album by Fanu and Bill Laswell, released on March 28, 2008 by Karlrecords.

Usage examples of "lodge".

Daklar Bolbay lodged her complaint against you, an adjudicator ordered you placed under judicial scrutiny.

I had bought them dresses and linen in abundance, they were well lodged and well fed, I took them to the theatre and to the country, and the consequence was they all adored me, and seemed to think that this manner of living would go on for ever.

I cannot contravene the order of knights errant, about whom I know it is true, not having read anything to the contrary, that they never paid for their lodging or anything else in any inn where they stayed, because whatever welcome they receive is owed to them as their right and privi-lege in return for the unbearable hardships they suffer as they seek adventures by night and by day, in winter and in summer, on foot and on horseback, suffering thirst and hunger, heat and cold, and exposed to all the inclemencies of heaven and all the discomforts on earth.

Entering the lodge, Aganippe lay down beside the glowing stones piled in a central pit.

I told him that, as far as I knew, Sir Justinian and Lady Albacore were the only inmates of the Lodging and tried to indicate from my memory of our tour where they were likely to be found.

Order was transformed into a Strict Templar Observance Masonic Lodge, although it still maintained its alchemical nature.

Buccari, hands and face blackened with soot, collapsed on the lodge porch and watched the sun flush alpenglow from the snowy peaks.

There is not simply an inquiry as to the value of classic culture, a certain jealousy of the schools where it is obtained, a rough popular contempt for the graces of learning, a failure to see any connection between the first aorist and the rolling of steel rails, but there is arising an angry protest against the conditions of a life which make one free of the serene heights of thought and give him range of all intellectual countries, and keep another at the spade and the loom, year after year, that he may earn food for the day and lodging for the night.

Volvo across the city, along Macurtain Street, and turned left up the hill to the Arbutus Lodge.

A narrow path beneath over-arching boughs of cherry-laurel and arbutus, immediately facing the lodge, caught her eye, and down this she at once turned her footsteps.

A single petal picked up near the locked door to the garden of Arling Lodge seemed a small return for such perseverance, but it is to be presumed that the patient search had not been in vain, for it was immediately after the discovery that Carrados left the opening, and with the cool effrontery that marked his methods he opened the front gate of Dr.

Miss Julp, had arrived at Arling Lodge and been given immediate admission.

Jones at his lodgings, with some account of a young gentleman who lodged there, and of the mistress of the house, and her two daughters The next morning, as early as it was decent, Jones attended at Mrs.

For the purpose of attending the Exchange, and of becoming acquainted with the language, he hired a lodging in the neighborhood of the city, where he remained for some weeks.

Work in the project for twenty years, for example, and at the age of fifty - in some cases, even earlier - you can have a wide choice of retirements - an estate somewhere on Auk world, a villa on a paradise world, a hunting lodge in another world where there is a variety of game that is unbelievable.