lodge

noun

• 1a small house at the gates of a park or in the grounds of a large house, typically occupied by a gatekeeper, gardener, or other employee.
• a small country house occupied in season for sports such as hunting, shooting, fishing, and skiing:a hunting lodge
• a large house or hotel:Cumberland Lodge
• a porter’s quarters at the main entrance of a college or other large building.
• the residence of a head of a college, especially at Cambridge.
• an American Indian hut.
• a beaver’s den.

• 2a branch or meeting place of an organization such as the Freemasons.

verb

• 1 [with object] present (a complaint, appeal, claim, etc.) formally to the proper authorities:he has 28 days in which to lodge an appeal
• (lodge something in/with) leave money or a valuable item in (a place) or with (someone) for safekeeping.

• 2make or become firmly fixed or embedded in a particular place: [with object]:they had to remove a bullet lodged near his spine [no object]: figurativethe image had lodged in her mind

• 3 [no object] stay or sleep in another person’s house, paying money for one’s accommodations:the man who lodged in the room next door
• [with object] provide (someone) with a place to sleep or stay in return for payment.

• 4 [with object] (of wind or rain) flatten (a standing crop): (as adjective lodged)rain that soaks standing or lodged crops
• [no object] (of a crop) be flattened by wind or rain.