▪ I. lodging, vbl. n.
(ˈlɒdʒɪŋ)
Forms: see lodge v.; also 4 lugyne, 6 loggyne, Sc. ludgene, lugin(g, lugeing; pl. 5 loggeyns, 6 Sc. luggenis.
[f. lodge v. +-ing1.]
1. The action of the verb lodge (in various senses).
| 1525 Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 110 The auld statut maid for the ressayt and luging of strangaris. 1576 Turberv. Venerie 141 There is not so muche skill to be used in lodgyng of a Bucke as in harboring of a harte. 1652 Heylin Cosmogr., Scot. 297 The custom of the Indians in giving to the Bramines the first nights lodging with their Brides. 1726 Leoni Alberti's Archit. I. 95 b, Houses..for the lodging of men, animals, or tools of agriculture. 1731 Tull Horse-hoeing Husb. xiii. (1733) 150 One Cause is the lodging or falling of Corn. 1884 Manch. Exam. 30 June 5/3 That the straw is short..is a great safeguard against ‘lodging’ in the event of heavy rainstorms. |
† 2. Dwelling, abode. Phr.
to make, take (up) one's lodging: to take up one's (temporary) abode.
| a 1300 Cursor M. 6212 Þis folk..innermar þe [Gött. þair] loging made. 1362 Langl. P. Pl. A. xii. 44 His loggyng is with Lyf that lord is of erthe. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints iii. (St. Andreas) 56 Þe house..quhar þai twa Þare lugyne in þe towne can ma. 1390 Gower Conf. III. 62 Thei take logginge in the toun After the disposicion Wher as him thoghte best to duelle. c 1450 Merlin 44 Go to a gode town and take thy logginge. 1535 Coverdale Song Sol. vii. 11 Let vs go forth in to the felde, and take oure lodginge in the vyllages. 1601 Holland Pliny (1634) I. 126 When he [sc. the Ganges] is once come into the flat plains and euen country..he taketh vp his lodging in a certain lake. 1611 Bible Isa. x. 29 They haue taken vp their lodging at Geba. |
3. a. Accommodation for rest at night or for residence; now only, accommodation in hired rooms or in a lodging-house (often in
phr. board and lodging).
| 1432–50 tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 465 To ȝiffe loggenge [L. hospitium] and other refreschenge to theyme. 1454 in Paston Lett. I. 265 The Duke of Somersetes herbergeour hath taken up all the loggyng that may be goten nere the Toure. 1533 Bellenden Livy (1901) 190 He was ressauit in lugeing with Attius Tulius. 1535 Coverdale John i. 38 Rabbi Where art thou at lodginge? 1588 Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 811. 1611 Bible Judg. xix. 15 There was no man that tooke them into his house to lodging. 1668 Davenant Rivals v. 48 My lodging it is on the Cold ground. 1776 Adam Smith W.N. (1869) I. i. xi. 172 After food, clothing and lodging are the two great wants of mankind. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. iii. I. 327 An ample return for his food, his lodging, and his stipend. 1859 Tennyson Elaine 171 An old, dumb, myriad-wrinkled man, Who let him into lodging. |
† b. Dwelling accommodation, house-room.
| 1715 Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 49 One may make more or less Lodging than I have here drawn, according as..the master shall require. |
† c. Material to lie or sleep on.
Obs.| 1683 Tryon Way to Health xvii. (1697) 402 Chaff-Beds, with Ticks of Canvas, and Quilts made of Wooll or Flocks to lay on them; which..is the most easie and pleasant Lodging that can be invented. 1691 Ray Creation ii. (1722) 371 Their Feathers serve to stuff our Beds and Pillows, yielding us soft and warm Lodging. |
4. concr. a. A place or building in which a person lodges or resides; a dwelling-place, abode;
† a bedroom (
obs.);
† military quarters, encampment (
obs.). (In the sense of ‘temporary lodging-place’, ‘hired rooms’, commonly superseded by the
pl. lodgings: see 5 b.)
(castle) of lodgings: (one) used as a residence.
| 13.. E.E. Allit. P. B. 887 Þay lest of lotez logging any lysoun to fynde. 1375 Barbour Bruce vi. 1 The King is went till his luging. c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 3063 Þanne þay gunne to pryke vaste toward hure logyngge. c 1450 Merlin 43 He come in to oure loigginge in Northumberlonde while we satte at oure mete. a 1533 Ld. Berners Huon xi. 31 He was serchyd for in his logynge. 1538 Leland Itin. (1745) I. 84 Raby is the largest Castel of Logginges in al the North Cuntery. a 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VII 23 They that went before inquyred after ynnes and lodgynges as though they woulde repose them selfes there all nighte. 1583 Leg. Bp. St. Androis 659 The menstrallis and the bairdis..About his ludgene loudlie played. 1588 Dr. A. Perne Will in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 28 The Colledge Librairie..to be newe builded at the east end of the Masters Lodginge longewayes towardes the Streate. 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. Ind. i. 49 Burne sweet Wood to make the Lodging sweete. 1604 Drayton Owle 1105 And on each small Branch of this large-limb'd Oke, Their pretty Lodgings carelessly they tooke. 1618 Beaum. & Fl. Loyal Subj. ii. v, The rest [of the rooms] above are lodgings all. 1637 J. Taylor (Water-P.) (title) The Carriers Cosmographie: or A Briefe Relation, of The Innes, Ordinaries, Hosteries, and other lodgings in or neere London. 1712 Steele Spect. No. 264 ¶1 He lives in a Lodging of Ten Shillings a Week. 1798 Monthly Mag. VI. 436 ‘A lodging all within itself, with divers easements, to set’, is the common stile of a bill for letting a house in Edinburgh. 1814 Scott Ld. of Isles v. xxi, In silvan lodging close bestow'd, He placed the page. 1823 Galt Gilhaize I. iii. 30 Going straight up the walk to the door of a lodging, to the which this was the parterre and garden. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 479 Hacket..had already secured every inn and lodging. 1883 R. W. Dixon Mano ii. i. 63 His eye fell fiercely on me, when my way I found into his lodging. |
| transf. and fig. a 1586 Sidney Apol. Poetrie (Arb.) 29 Our degenerate soules made worse by theyr clayey lodgings. 1605 Shakes. Lear ii. ii. 179 Not to behold This shamefull lodging [sc. the stocks]. 1645 Waller A la Malade 23 The breaches made In that faire Lodging [the body] still more clear Make the bright Guest your Soule appear. 1646 W. Jenkyn Remora 10 Without it [Religion], Kingdoms are but..lurking places for theeves, not lodgings for the pure God. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriot. iii. (1736) 31 Christians..acknowledged their Bodies to be the Lodging of Christ. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 64 Plaister thou their chinky Hives with Clay, And leafy Branches o'er their Lodgings lay. |
† b. The portion of space assigned to one man in a camp.
Obs.| 1598 Barret Theor. Warres 155 Vnto euery man at Armes we will allow 8 lodgings; and vnto euery roome or lodging we will give 50 superficiall foote of ground. |
† c. A ward in a hospital; a cell in a prison.
| 1612 New Life Virginia (1897) 9 An hospital with four⁓score lodgings, and beds already sent to furnish them. 1679–88 Secr. Serv. Moneys of Chas. II & Jas. II (Camd. Soc.) 133 For strengthening divers of the prison lodgings with iron bars, bolts, and locks. |
† d. A square on a chess-board, as being the ‘place’ of a particular piece.
Obs.| 1562 Rowbotham Playe Cheastes E iv b, Thou shalte cause thy knight to retyre to the lodging of thy Quene. |
† e. Hunting. The lair of a buck, stag, etc.
Obs.| a 1586 Sidney Arcadia i. (1590) 39 b, The stagge thought it better to trust to the nimblenes of his feete, then to the slender fortification of his lodging. 1610 J. Guillim Heraldry iii. xvi. (1611) 147 They doe readilie discover..the Tracks, Fourmes, and lodgings of beasts of chase. |
5. Specialized uses of the
pl. † a. Military quarters.
Obs.| 1475 Bk. Noblesse 69 The duc made redy the ordenaunce wyth shot of grete gounys amongys the rebells and shot of arowes myghtelye, that they kept her loggeyns. 1548 Hall Chron., Hen. VIII 28 For his other lodgynges he had great and goodly tentes of blewe. 1568 Grafton Chron. I. 8 The first inventer of the Portative tents or lodgings. 1614 Raleigh Hist. World v. iii. 463 [They] fell vpon him, with hope to take him vnprepared, whilest he was making his lodgings. 1665 Manley Grotius' Low-C. Warres 839 Lodgings were made for the Souldiers under Ground in the Form of Trenches. 1677 Hubbard Narrative 55 Very cold Lodgings, hard Marches, Scarcity of Provision. |
b. A room or rooms hired for accommodation and residence in the house of another (in
mod. usage, not in an inn or hotel).
| 1640 D'Ewes in Lett. Lit. Men (Camden) 165, I have promised to take lodgings close by him in the Coven Garden. 1712–14 Pope Rape Lock iv. 118 Sooner shall grass in Hyde⁓park Circus grow, And wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 21 He used to lye at night in houses where he found written over the door Lodgings for a penny. 1787 C. Smith Romance Real Life I. 220 She discharged her lodgings..and went to another part of Paris. 1849 Thackeray Pendennis lxvii. (1863) 585 The house may be yours: but the lodgings are mine and you will have the goodness to leave them. 1861 Mrs. J. H. Riddell City & Suburb II. vi. 107 Life in lodgings, at the best of times, is not a peculiarly exhilarating state of existence. |
c. An official residence. Now the name given to the houses of the heads of certain Oxford colleges. (
Cf. quot. 1588 in 4, and
lodge n. 8.) Also
Judges' lodgings: the house which (in some assize towns) is occupied by the judges during the assizes.
| 1661 Wood Life 3 May, They all went to the warden's lodgings, and gave him possession. 1826 Act 7 Geo. IV, c. 63 §1 Provisions..for providing Lodgings for the Accommodation of His Majesty's Judges of Assize. 1827 Oxford Guide 38 Queen's College... Over the west cloister are two stories, containing..the Provost's Lodgings [etc.]. 1895 Strand Mag. Mar. 320 The judge's lodgings are usually a fine old house set apart for the purpose. |
6. attrib. and
Comb., as
lodging-hunting,
lodging-lease,
lodging-letter,
lodging-place,
lodging-seeker;
lodging-car U.S., ‘a car fitted with bunks for hands at work on a railway line’ (Knight
Dict. Mech.,
Suppl.);
† lodging-chamber = lodging-room b;
† lodging-fellow, one who shares the same lodgings with another;
lodging-hall U.S., a lodging-house;
lodging-money, an allowance made by government to all officers and soldiers for whom there is not sufficient accommodation in barracks (1872–6 Voyle
Milit. Dict.);
lodging paper, a handbill advertising lodgings;
lodging turn, an occasion or period for which a railway employee has to lodge at his place of destination before returning to his place of departure. Also
lodging-house, -room.
| 1645 Evelyn Diary (1879) I. 220 The hall, chapell, and great number of *lodging chambers are remarkable. 1687 Dr. Smith in Magd. Coll. (O.H.S.) 162 Lodging-chambers. |
| a 1490 Botoner Itin. (1778) 374 Sir Phelip Braunche [etc.]..apud le sege de Roun; fuerunt le *logeyng felowys. |
| 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career xii. 208 We left Arthur Blague..sitting on his bed in the *lodging-hall. |
| 1879 ‘Edna Lyall’ Won by Waiting ix, It was certainly *lodging hunting under difficulties. |
| 1802–12 Bentham Ration. Judic. Evid. (1827) II. 483 For each distinct species of contract let a distinct species of paper be provided,..as for instance..*lodging-lease paper. |
| 1851 Mayhew Lond. Labour I. 366 A *lodging-letter..will..drive keen bargains for plates, dishes, or wash-hand basins and jugs. |
| 1802 C. James Milit. Dict., *Lodging money. |
| 1817 Jane Austen Sanditon vii, in Minor Works (1954) 402 No fewer than three *Lodging Papers staring me in the face at this very moment. |
| 14.. Epiph. in Tundale's Vis. (1843) 116 Whyll thei slepped at her *loggyng place Ther com an angell apperyng with grette lyght. 1611 Bible Josh. iv. 3 In the lodging place where you shall lodge this night. 1878 J. Buller 40 years in N.Z. 70 In a small rush church we met with a lodging-place. |
| 1885 R. L. & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 99 A large number of *lodging-seekers. |
| 1952 Ann. Reg. 1951 15 Economy measures, some of which (such as more *lodging turns) had caused serious strikes. 1955 Ann. Reg. 1954 30 About two-thirds of the..footplate men..came out on strike against the introduction of new ‘lodging turns’, i.e. nights spent, usually in railway hostels, away from home. |
▪ II. lodging, ppl. a. (
ˈlɒdʒɪŋ)
[f. lodge v. + -ing2.] That ‘lodges’ or rests upon something; said
Naut. of a horizontal in contradistinction to a ‘hanging’ or vertical knee.
| 1567 Turberv. Ovid's Epist. P vij b, Full oft vpon thine armes my lodging necke I lay. 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1780) s.v. Knee, Knees are either said to be lodging or hanging. Ibid. s.v. Decks, The horizontal or lodging knees, which fasten the beams to the sides. 1874 Thearle Naval Archit. 40 Lodging knees have not been fitted of late years to H.M. ships. |