noun

1. 1. a small house, esp. one for a servant, or one for use during a special season a caretaker's lodge, hunting lodge
   2. a resort hotel or motel
2. 1. the meeting place of a local chapter, as of a fraternal organization
   2. such a local chapter
3. the den or typical lair of certain wild animals, esp. beavers
4. ☆
   1. the hut or tent of an American Indian
   2. those who live in it

Etymology: ME loge, hut, masons' workshop (> sense 2) < OFr, summer house, arbor (> loge) < LL lobia < Gmc *laubja, sheltered place, leafy arbor (> OHG louba, upper roof, porch, leafy cover): for IE base see leaf

transitive verb lodged, lodging lodg′·ing

1. to provide with a place of temporary residence; house
2. to rent rooms to; take as a paying guest
3. to serve as a temporary dwelling for
4. to serve as a container for
5. to place or deposit for safekeeping
6. to put or send into a place or position by shooting, thrusting, etc.; place; land: with in to lodge an arrow in a target
7. to bring (an accusation, complaint, etc.) before legal authorities
8. to confer (powers) upon: with in
9. to beat down (growing crops), as rain

Etymology: ME loggen < OFr logier (> Fr loger)

intransitive verb

1. to live in a certain place for a time
2. to live (with another or in his home) as a paying guest
3. to come to rest or be placed and remain firmly fixed: with in a bone lodged in her throat