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. Sir 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. Scriverer, 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. Shaks., Tam. Shr., IV. iv. 5. We were lodgers, at the Pegasos. Ibid. (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. Const., 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. 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. J. 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 £10; in 1884 it was extended to counties.
1867. Times, 20 March, 9/4. The total omission of the Lodger Franchise from the present multifarious and omnivorous measure can only be explained by the rapidity of execution necessary under the circumstances.
1884. Act 48 Vict., c. 3 § 2. A uniform household franchise and a uniform lodger franchise … shall be established in all counties and boroughs.
