lodger
(ˈlɒdʒə(r))
Also 4 loger, logger, 6 loghger, Sc. lugear.
[f. lodge v. + -er1.]
1. † a. A dweller in a tent (cf. lodge v. 7). Obs.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 1517 Iobal..Was first loger, and fee delt wit [Genesis iv. 20]. |
b. One who sojourns in a place, an occupant, inhabitant; also, one who sleeps or passes the night in a place. Now only
arch.| 1511 Galway Arch. in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 394 No aliannt nor strangers shalbe loghgers ne in town nor land. 1832 S. Ferguson Forging of Anchor 70 O lodger in the sea-king's halls. 1834 Sir H. Taylor Artevelde ii. v. i. 190 Tatterdemalions, lodgers in the hedge. |
| transf. 1676 Wiseman Surg. vi. ii. 412 By this you..quit the Part of its troublesome Lodger [viz. a bullet]. 1737 Pope Hor. Epist. ii. ii. 223 Look in that breast, most dirty D―! be fair, Say, can you find out one such lodger there? 1891 S. C. Scrivener Our Fields & Cities 147 In properly cultivated land a grub is a very rare lodger. |
c. One who resides as an inmate in another person's house, paying a certain sum periodically for the accommodation.
| 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. iv. iv. 5 We were lodgers, at the Pegasos. 1599 ― Hen. V, ii. i. 33 Base Tyke, cal'st thou mee Hoste, now by this hand I sweare I scorne the terme: nor shall my Nel keep Lodgers. 1680 Baxter Answ. Stillingfl. ix. 18 In London, Lodgers may change frequently. 1711 Addison Spect. No. 101 ¶7 He lived as a Lodger at the House of a Widow-Woman. 1758 Johnson Idler No. 16 ¶3 He dismissed the lodgers from the first floor. 1844 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. vi. 85 All lodgers and boarders, all who have no house of their own. |
† 2. One who lodges a person; a host.
Obs.| 1533 Bellenden Livy ii. (1822) 139 Mony of thir presoneris..gaif thankis to thair lugearis for the benevolence schewin to thame during the time of thair captivite. 1632 Sherwood, A lodger, hoste, qui loge, ou herberge. 1665 R. Brathwait Comm. Two Tales 8 A Lodger or Tabler of Scholars and other Artists. |
3. A thing that lodges or becomes fixed in a place.
| 1868 Rep. Munit. War 17 The number of missiles discharged by these seventy-six effective rounds would be 1216 of which..443 [were] lodgers. 1880 Dunbar Pract. Papermaker 24 This prevents ‘lodgers’, or pieces of rag not reduced to half-stuff, hanging about, which, if allowed to escape, would cause knots and grey specks in the paper. |
4. attrib.:
lodger-franchise, a right to vote conferred by statute in 1867 upon persons in boroughs occupying lodgings of an annual rental value of at least {pstlg}10; in 1884 it was extended to counties.
| 1867 Times 20 Mar. 9/4 The total omission of the Lodger Franchise from the present multifarious and omnivorous measure. 1884 Act 48 Vict. c. 3 §2 A uniform household franchise and a uniform lodger franchise..shall be established in all counties and boroughs. |