lodge

A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin.

Ellipsis of porter's lodge: a building or room near the entrance of an estate or building, especially (UK, Canada) as a college mailroom.

[H]e walked across Hawthorn Tree Court on his way to the porter's lodge. […] At the lodge he cleared his pigeon-hole.

A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons.

A local chapter of a trade union.

A rural hotel or resort, an inn.

To be firmly fixed in a specified position.

The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.

To firmly fix 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.

Stay and lodge by me this night.

Something holy lodges in that breast.

To drive (an animal) to covert.

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: […]

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