lodgest

Verb

lodge (third-person singular simple present lodges, present participle lodging, simple past and past participle lodged)

1. (intransitive) To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
   • The bullet missed its target and lodged in the bark of a tree.
2. (transitive) To firmly fix in a specified position.
   • I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth.
3. (intransitive) To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
   • The detective Sherlock Holmes lodged in Baker Street.
4. (intransitive) To stay in any place or shelter.
   • Stay and lodge by me this night.c. 1591–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Third Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...

   Synonyms:

   stay over, stop, keep, quarter, sleep over, sojourn, stay, stop off, stop over, tarry

5. (transitive) 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...1819, John Mayer, The Sportsman's Directory, or Park and Gamekeeper's Companion
6. (transitive) To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time.

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