Forms: 3–6 loge, logge, (4 loghe, loȝe, Sc. lug), 4–6 Sc. luge, (5 loigge, looge, 6 loige, Sc. ludge), 7–8 lodg, 5– lodge. Pl. 4 logis, Sc. luggis, 4–5 loges, logges, 5 logez, loggen, loigges, loogez, 6 luges, -is. (See also LOGIS.). [ME. loge, logge, a. OF. loge, loige arbor, summerhouse, hut (F. loge hut, cottage, box at a theater, etc.) = Pr. lotja, Pg. loja, It. loggia (dial. lobia):—med.L. laubia, lobia (recorded in the sense ‘covered walk, cloister’: hence LOBBY), a. OHG. *laubja, later louppea, lauba, sheltered or shady place, booth, hut (glossing umbraculum, tempes, magalia, mappalia, proscenium, propola; MHG. loube, löube porch, balcony, hall; mod.G. laube arbor, summerhouse).
The derivation of the Ger. word from OTeut. *lauƀom LEAF is disputed by some scholars, on the ground that the sense ‘arbor’ is a mod. development from compounds like sommerlaube, gartenlaube. But the Latin-OHG. glosses, and the early examples of loge in OF., seem to show clearly that the sense ‘shelter of foliage,’ though not evidenced in MHG., is the primary one. Cf. LEVESEL.]
1. A small house or dwelling, esp. a temporary one; a hut or booth; a tent, arbor, or the like. Now dial. in specific applications.
1290. Rolls of Parlt., I. 29/1. Logges in quibus piscatores possent hospitari.
a. 1300. Cursor M., 6192. Son be a mikel wodside Þai made þair loges [Gött. logis, Trin. logges] for to bide.
13[?]. Sir Beues (A.), 3622. Beues and Terri doun liȝte And wiþ here swerdes a logge piȝte.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XIX. 392. Tentis and luggis als thair-by Thai gert mak.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Nun’s Pr. T., 33. Wel sikerer was his crowyng in his logge, Than is a clokke or an abbey Orlogge.
c. 1400. Ywaine & Gaw., 2037. A loge of bowes sone he made.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxvii. 125. Þe comouns … er all hird men and lyez þeroute in logez [F. gissent en tentis].
c. 1450. Merlin, 387. A grete flame of fire … ran ouer the loigges of hem in the hoste.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. xviii. 21. They cut downe bowes of trees to theyr swerdis to tye withall their horses, and to make them selfe lodges.
1575–6. Durham Depos. (Surtees), 278. In the plage tyme … when sick folkes had lodges maid upon the more.
1611. Bible, Isa. i. 8. The daughter of Zion is left as a collage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers.
1667. Milton, P. L., V. 377. So to the Silvan Lodge They came.
1748. H. Ellis, Hudson’s Bay, 177. His People … had they been furnished with large Beaver Coats, and had built Lodges in the Woods [etc.].
1784. Cowper, Task, I. 227. I call’d the low-roof’d lodge the Peasant’s Nest.
1810. Scott, Lady of L., I. xxvi. Here … Some chief had framed a rustic bower. It was a lodge of ample size.
1860. Dickens, Uncomm. Trav., xl. Bricklayers often tramp, in twos and threes, lying by night at their ‘lodges’ which are scattered all over the country.
† b. A place of confinement; a cell, prison.
c. 1290. S. Eng. Leg., I. 307/279. Ore louerd after is deþe In harde logge him brouȝte And teide þane schrewe faste Inovȝ.
c. 1450. Cov. Myst., ii. (Shaks. Soc.), 29. In helle logge thou xalt be lokyn.
1526. Skelton, Magnyf., 2362. Had ye not the soner ben my refuge, Of dampnacyon I had ben drawen in the luge.
1526. Tindale, Acts xii. 7. A light shyned in the lodge.
1676. D’Urfey, Mad. Fickle, V. ii. (1677), 59. How now! What’s here one going to fire the house? Away, away with him to the Lodge.
1704. Swift, Tale Tub, Battle Bks., 236. Books of Controversy, being of all others, haunted by the most disorderly Spirits, have always been confined in a separate Lodge from the rest.
c. A shed or out-house. dial.
1706. Phillips (ed. Kersey), Logium, (in old Records) a Hovel, or Out-house, still call’d a Lodge in Kent.
1887. Kentish Dial., Lodge, an outbuilding, a shed, with an implied notion that it is more or less of a temporary character.
1888. Fenn, Dick o’ the Fens, 127. The lookers-on saw that the stable and the cart lodge were doomed.
1892. R. Stead, Bygone Kent, 201. ‘Lodge’ means a wood or toolshed.
1901. Daily Chron., 20 Dec., 5/1. The Member for Carnarvon in the clothes of the average constable would be, as they say in Kent, like ‘a tom-tit in a wagon-lodge.’
2. A house in a forest or other wild place, serving as a temporary abode in the hunting season; now used of the solitary houses built, e.g., in the Highlands of Scotland, for the accommodation of sportsmen during the shooting season.
1465. in Paston Lett., III. 437. The pullyng downe of the logge of Heylesdon.
1470–85. Malory, Arthur, VII. xix. 242. There by was a grete lodge and there he alyghte to slepe.
1495. Act 1 Hen. VII., c. 33 § 9. Keper of the Parke and of the Manoir or Loge there.
c. 1500. Paston Lett., III. 340. Writyn at the lodge in Lavenham the last day of Juylle.
a. 1586. Sidney, Arcadia, I. (1590), 12. He … retired himselfe, his wife, and children, into a certaine forrest … where in he hath builded two fine lodges.
1598. Shaks., Merry W., I. i. 115. Knight, you haue beaten my men, kill’d my deere, and broke open my Lodge. Fal. But not kiss’d your Keepers daughter? Ibid. (1599), Much Ado, II. i. 222. I found him heere as melancholy as a Lodge in a Warren.
1760–72. H. Brooke, Fool of Qual. (1809), II. 36. If you will give yourself the trouble to inquire out my little lodge on the hill.
1900. A. Lang, in Longm. Mag., Oct., 591. The tedium of endless rain and impenetrable darkness in a Highland lodge is mitigated by the first numbers of the Edinburgh Review.
3. A house or cottage, occupied by a caretaker, keeper, gardener, etc., and placed at the entrance of a park or at some place in the grounds belonging to a mansion; the room, ‘box,’ or the like occupied by the porter of a college, a factory, etc.
1500–20. Dunbar, Poems, xlii. 76. Strangenes, quhar that he did ly, Wes brint in to the porter luge.
1504. Nottingham Rec., III. 323. For reparacion of þe logge on þe est syde [of a bridge].
1540. Coucher bk. of Selby, II. 356. Unam domum sive le lodge erga portas ejusdem grangiæ.
c. 1630. Risdon, Surv. Devon, § 293 (1810), 301. They had a … park, the very lodge whereof hath afforded dwelling to men of good worth.
1744. Ozell, trans. Brantome’s Sp. Rhodomontades, 211. Having the Lodge of the Bridge of St. Vincent at their Back.
1798. Charlotte Smith, Yng. Philos., IV. 133. A lodge, where lived the widow of a huntsman,… gave entrance to this forest-like domain.
1827. Oxford Guide, 27. Magdalene College, The Porter’s Lodge is on the first right-hand corner of the entrance Court.
1840. Dickens, Barn. Rudge, xxxix. As they happened to be near the Old Bailey, and Mr. Dennis knew there were turnkeys in the lodge with whom he could pass the night.
1842. Tennyson, Audley Court, 16. We … cross’d the garden to the gardener’s lodge.
1865. Trollope, Belton Est., xxvi. 319. She passed through the lodges of the park entrance.
1867. [see 8].
4. gen. A lodging, abode, esp. a temporary lodging-place, a place of sojourn; † formerly often transf. a place to accommodate or hold something.
1571. Satir. Poems Reform., xxv. 129. To saue þis noble ludge [the Castle of Edinburgh].
1575. Gascoigne, Pr. Pleas. Kenilw. (1821), 37. Nor could I see that any spark of lust A loitering lodge within her breast could find.
c. 1590. Greene, Fr. Bacon, viii. (1630), D 3 b. If Phœbus … Come courting from the beauty of his lodge. Ibid. (1594), Selimus, F 3 b. Witnesse these handlesse armes, Witnesse these emptie lodges of mine eyes.
1602. Marston, Ant. & Mel., IV. Wks. 1856, I. 44. The soule itselfe gallops along with them, As chiefetaine of this winged troope of thought, Whilst the dull lodge of spirit standeth waste.
1618. Brathwait, Good Wife, etc. E 7 b. Two empty Lodges haz he in his Head, which had two Lights, but now his Eies be gone.
1719. Watts, Hymns, I. xliii. Earth is our lodge, and heaven our home.
1782. Cowper, A Fable, 25. [He] long had marked her [a raven’s] airy lodge.
1867. F. W. H. Myers, St. Paul (1898), 23. This my poor lodge, my transitory dwelling.
† 5. Phr. To take one’s lodge: to take up one’s abode. (Cf. LODGING vbl. sb. 2.) Obs.
c. 1475. Partenay, 5168. Hermites Robes full faste lete doo make, In Arrygon toke hys logge and repair.
6. The workshop in which a body of ‘freemasons’ worked (see FREEMASON 1). Obs. exc. Hist.
1371. in Britton, Hist. Metrop. York (1819), 80. Itte es ordayned … yat all ye Masonnes … sall … be ilk a day … atte yaire werk in ye loge yat es ordayned to ye masonnes at wyrke inwith ye close … als arly als yai may see skilfully by day lyghte for till wyrke.
c. 1430. Freemasonry, 280. The prevetyse of the chamber telle he no mon, Ny yn the logge whatsever they donn. Ibid., 133.
1483. Extracts Aberd. Reg. (1844), I. 39. It was appoyntit … betuix the masownys of the luge.
1483. Cath. Angl., 223/2. A Luge for masons, lapidicina, lapicidium.
1483–4. Durham Acc. Rolls (Surtees), 415. Cum portacione eorundem [mason’s tools] ad le Luge.
1870. Brentano, Hist. Gilds, IV. in Eng. Gilds (E.E.T.S.), p. cxliv. The ‘lodge’ itself of the architect was very similar to our factories; it consisted of one or more workshops in which the workmen worked together.
7. Among Freemasons and some other societies: The place of meeting for members of a branch; hence, the members composing a branch; also, a meeting of a ‘lodge’ of freemasons, etc. Grand lodge, the principal or governing body of the freemasons (and of some other societies), presided over by the grand-master. For Orange lodge see ORANGE2.
1686. Plot, Staffordsh., 316. Into which Society when any are admitted, they call a meeting (or Lodge as they term it in some places) which must consist at lest of 5 or 6 of the Ancients of the Order.
1733. Bramston, Man of Taste, 196. Next Lodge I’ll be Free-Mason.
1742. in Hone, Every-day Bk., II. 525. They … are to guard the Lodge, with a drawn Sword.
1753. Scots Mag., Sept., 427/1. A body of gentlemen masons belonging to foreign lodges.
1797. Encycl. Brit. (ed. 3), X. 625/1. It was this year [1720], agreed, that, for the future, the new grand-master shall be named and proposed to the grand lodge some time before the feast.
1813. Gen. Hist., in Ann. Reg., 93. Provisions were made for establishing district lodges [of Orangemen]: and … the masters of all regimental lodges were to make half-yearly returns … to the secretary of the grand lodge; and in these military lodges … officers and privates were to meet on terms of equality.
1845. D. Jerrold, Caudle Lect., viii. (1846), 26. I suppose you’ll be going to what you call your Lodge every night, now?
1866. Lowell, Seward-Johnson Reaction, Pr. Wks. 1898, V. 318. Now joining a Know-Nothing ‘lodge,’ now hanging on the outskirts of a Fenian ‘circle.’
1900. MacKenzie, Guide to Inverness, 46. The head-quarters of a lodge of Good Templars.
8. At Cambridge University, the residence of the head of a college.
1769. Gray, in Corr. w. Nicholls (1843), 87. That Trinity Hall Lodge would be vacant … to receive Mrs. Nicholls and you.
1830. Bp. Monk, Life Bentley, 115. The dean … allowed the £170 to remain in Bentley’s hands … to be expended in purchasing furniture for the master’s lodge.
1867. Contemp. Rev., IV. 529. The name ‘Lodgings,’ as applied to the Master’s House, is peculiar to Oxford. At Cambridge the word is ‘The Lodge,’ or the Master’s Lodge. At Oxford ‘The Lodge’ is simply the Porter’s Lodge.
9. The den or lair of an animal; ? now only of a beaver or an otter.
1567. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 6. Whilest that the Dragon is from home, these men bestrew his Lodge with certaine Graine. Ibid., 71 b. The Ant is called in Latine Formica, quasi micas ferens, carying her meale by crummes into hir Lodge.
1611. Cotgr., Reposée,… the lodge of a Stag, &c.
1744. A. Dobbs, Hudson’s Bay, 40. He has seen fifteen [Beaver] of that Colour out of one Lodge or Pond.
1756. Amory, Buncle (1825), I. 30. Before the beasts were roused from their lodges, or the birds had soared upwards.
1855. Longf., Hiaw., Introd. 26. In the lodges of the beaver.
1897. Encycl. Sport, I. 583/2. Holt, the lair of the otter…. Other names for holt are Couch, Hover, Kennel, and Lodge.
10. The tent of a North American Indian; a wigwam or tepee. Also, the number of Indians accommodated in one tent as a unit of enumeration, reckoned at from four to six.
1805. Pike, Sources Mississ. (1810), 14. Having shot at some pidgeons, the report was heard at the Sioux lodges.
1807. P. Gass, Jrnl., 45. Their lodges are about eighty in number, and contain about ten persons each.
1836. W. Irving, Astoria, II. 204. They came to two lodges of Shoshonies.
1839. Marryat, Diary Amer., Ser. I. I. 183. Wandering among the Indian Lodges (wigwams is a term not used now-a-days), I heard a sort of flute.
1855. Longf., Hiaw., xvi. 12. By the shining Big-Sea-Water Stood the lodge of Pau-Puk-Keewis.
1859. Marcy, Prairie Trav., v. 141. The usual tenement of the prairie tribes … is the Comanche lodge, which is made of eight straight peeled poles about twenty feet long, covered with hides or cloth.
1892. W. Pike, North. Canada, 24. Four deerskin lodges made our encampment.
† 11. A collection of objects ‘lodged’ or situated close to each other. Obs. rare.
1720. De Foe, Capt. Singleton, xiii. (1840), 229. The Maldives, a famous lodge of islands.
12. Rendering Romanic etymological equivalents. † a. = LOGGIA. Obs.
1613–39. I. Jones, in Leoni, Palladio’s Archit. (1742), II. 42. This Cornice is 1/8 part from the Lodge to the top of it.
1813. Gentl. Mag., LXXXIII. 226/1. Royal Military Hospital, Chelsea…. Dwarf walls, having cornices, in succession, containing small door-ways. Two lodges, right and left, carry on the line, containing four compartments … each…. Grounds to the dwarf-walls and lodges, brick; dressings, stone.
b. = LOGE2 2. rare.
1730. A. Gordon, Maffei’s Amphith., 320. A Round of large Covered Lodges, in which a great number of people were contained;… the Roofs of these Lodges were under the great Windows … in the fourth Story of the Coliseum.
1868. Browning, Ring & Bk., V. 897. Where the theatre lent its lodge … Pompilia needs must find herself Launching her looks forth.
c. [? = Pg. loja.] A storage room for wine.
1880. Vizetelly, Facts abt. Port, etc. 126. We … pass through the sample and tasting rooms into the lodges. Ibid., 130. The Villa Nova wine-lodges.
1895. Westm. Gaz., 5 April, 1/3. We have thousands of pipes of wine at Oporto, and the lodges cover acres of ground.
13. Mining. a. ‘A subterraneous reservoir for the drainage of the mine, made at the pit bottom, in the interior of the workings, or at different levels in the shaft’ (Gresley, Coal-mining Gloss., 1883).
b. A room or flat adjoining the shaft, for discharging ore, etc.
1881. in Raymond, Mining Gloss.
14. A reservoir of water for mill purposes. local.
1853. Gentl. Mag., Feb., 191/1. [In the neighbourhood of Bury, Lancashire] two reservoirs … in the village of Elton, forming a ‘lodge,’… for the accumulation from three narrow streams rising at Cockey Moor.
1891. Oldham Microsc. Soc. Jrnl., May, 101. Bad smells arise from our lodges.
15. attrib. and Comb., as lodge-door, -keeper, -man, -room; lodge-book, a book recording the doings of a masonic lodge; lodge-gate, the gate of a park or the like at which there is a lodge; lodge-pole, a pole used to support a North American Indian tent.
1738. J. Anderson (title), The New Book of the Constitutions of the … Free and Accepted Masons, containing their History,… collected … by Order of the Grand Lodge from their old Records … and *Lodge Books.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 784. As Loot in a *loge dor lened hym alone.
1542. Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden), 12. For a new key to the loige dore.
1854. Mrs. Gaskell, North & S., xv. The lodge door was like a common garden-door.
1838. Dickens, O. Twist, lii. At the *lodge gate.
1899. R. Kipling, Stalky & Co., i. 15. They could enter by the Lodge-gates on the upper road.
1854. Mrs. Gaskell, North & S., xv. The *lodge-keeper admitted them into a great oblong yard, on one side of which were offices for the transaction of business.
1892. Daily News, 8 Sept., 6/4. Often in my capacity as *lodge-man have I seen a poor woman breathlessly running in order to be in the mill before ‘lock-out.’
1855. Longf., Hiaw., ii. 171. At night Kabibonokka … Shook the *lodge-poles in his fury.
1865. Tylor, Early Hist. Man., iii. 37. The dogs were trained to drag the lodge-poles on the march.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxxi. 421. From our *lodge-room to the forward timbers every thing is clear already.
1864. A. McKay, Hist. Kilmarnock, 163. The lodge-room was in Croft Street.
