Meaning

• 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."

Meaning

• 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.