Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Lodge \Lodge\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Lodged}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Lodging}.]
   1. To rest or remain a lodge house, or other shelter; to
      rest; to stay; to abide; esp., to sleep at night; as, to
      lodge in York Street. --Chaucer.

            Stay and lodge by me this night.      --Shak.

            Something holy lodges in that breast. --Milton.

   2. To fall or lie down, as grass or grain, when overgrown or
      beaten down by the wind. --Mortimer.

   3. To come to a rest; to stop and remain; as, the bullet
      lodged in the bark of a tree.

Lodging \Lodg"ing\, n.
   1. The act of one who, or that which, lodges.

   2. A place of rest, or of temporary habitation; esp., a
      sleeping apartment; -- often in the plural with a singular
      meaning. --Gower.

            Wits take lodgings in the sound of Bow. --Pope.

   3. Abiding place; harbor; cover.

            Fair bosom . . . the lodging of delight. --Spenser.

   {Lodging house}, a house where lodgings are provided and let.
      

   {Lodging room}, a room in which a person lodges, esp. a hired
      room.

Source : WordNet®

lodging
     n 1: housing structures collectively; structures in which people
          are housed [syn: {housing}, {living accommodations}]
     2: the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even
        temporarily; "the lodgment of the balloon in the tree"
        [syn: {lodgment}, {lodgement}]
     3: the act of lodging