2syllables
lodging
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Definitions oflodging
1verb
- To be firmly fixed in a specified position.
Example: "I've got some spinach lodged between my teeth."
- To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady.
Example: "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.
Example: "The heavy rain caused the wheat to lodge."
- To cause to flatten, as grass or grain.
1noun
- A place to live or lodge.
- Sleeping accommodation.
- (in the plural) Furnished rooms in a house rented as accommodation.
- The condition of a plant, especially a cereal, that has been flattened in the field or damaged so that it cannot stand upright, as by weather conditions or because the stem is not strong enough to support the plant.
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