Forms: 35 logge(n, 5 lodgyn, loyge, loigge, 56 Sc. luge, 57 loge, 67 Sc. louge, ludge, 7 lodg, 5 lodge. [ad. OF. logier (mod.F. loger), f. loge: see LODGE sb.]
I. trans.
† 1. To place in tents or other temporary shelter; to encamp, station (an army). Often refl. to pitch ones tent, to encamp, take up a position; also in passive, to be encamped or stationed. Obs.
a. 1225. Ancr. R., 264. Metati sumus casim juxta lapidem adjutorii we beoð ilogged her bi þe, þet ert ston of help. Ibid. Ismeles folc com & loggede him bi þe stone of help.
c. 1330. R. Brunne, Chron. (1810), 182. Comen ere þe Inglis with pauilloun & tent, & loged þam right wele ouer alle þer þam þink.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 10745. Pavilions and pure tenttes [þai] pightyn aboute, And þere logget hom to lenge, while hom lefe thoght.
a. 140050. Alexander, 1952. A Messangere him tellis, Þat Alexander was at hand & had his ost loygid A-pon þe streme of Struma.
c. 1450. Merlin, 277. Ther-of herde Gawein that the saisnes were thus logged a-boute Bredigan.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. cxciv. 231. The watchmen of saynt Quintyne knewe that their ennemyes were natte farre lodged thense.
1568. Grafton, Chron., II. 271. At night they returned and sayde, howe that the Englishmen were lodged in the fieldes.
1598. Grenewey, Tacitus, Ann., XII. vii. (1622), 163. [Claudius] wrot vnto P. Attilius Histrus to lodge a Legion, and all the aid he could leuy in the prouince, on the banke of Danubium.
† b. To shelter with foliage. Obs. rare.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, 1140. Lurke vnder leuys logget with vines. Ibid., 1167. Lurkyt vnder lefe-sals loget with vines.
2. To provide with sleeping quarters or temporary habitation; to receive into ones house for the night; † to entertain, show hospitality to (guests). Also, in wider sense (cf. 7 b), to provide with a habitation; to place as a resident in a building; also in passive, to be (well or ill) accommodated with regard to dwelling.
13[?]. Coer de L., 6371. They are loggyd in this toun, I wyll goo, and aspye ther roun.
c. 1375. Sc. Leg. Saints, xxv. (Julian), 624. A place quhare þat a monk lugyt wes.
c. 1386. Chaucer, Nuns Pr. T., 171. They ne founde as muche as o cotage, In which they bothe myghte logged bee.
a. 1420. Hoccleve, De Reg. Princ., 4229. The fader logged hem In a chambre next to his joynyng.
1453. Pol. Poems (Rolls), II. 211. [They came] to Bedlum Where poorly loggyd they fond the kyng of pees.
1526. Tindale, Matt. xxv. 35. I was herbroulesse and ye lodged me.
1535. Coverdale, Heb. xiii. 2. Be not forgetfull to lodge straungers.
1591. Shaks., Two Gent., III. i. 35. I nightly lodge her in an vpper Towre, The key whereof, my selfe haue euer kept.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslies Hist. Scot., I. 103. With glade wil and frilie thay vse to luge kin, freind and acquaintance, ȝe and strangers that turnes in to thame.
1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., 118. When hee was come to the Court of France, the King stiled him by the name of the Duke of Yorke; lodged him, and accommodated him, in great State.
1714. Swift, Imit. Hor. Sat., II. vi. 3. Ive often wishd that I had A handsome House to lodge a Friend, A River at my gardens end.
1764. Burn, Poor Laws, 233. It is a kind of insult upon poverty, to go about to lodge poor people in a superb edifice.
1766. Smollett, Trav., I. viii. 139. I pay at the rate of two-and-thirty livres a day, for which I am very badly lodged, and but very indifferently entertained.
1840. Dickens, Old C. Shop, xxxi. This young lady was lodged for nothing.
1841. Lytton, Nt. & Morn., I. iii. You lodge your horses more magnificently than yourself.
1845. MCulloch, Taxation, I. iii. (1852), 105. The latter are probably better fed, and they certainly are better clothed and better lodged than at any former period.
transf. c. 1325. Song, Know Thyself, 82, in E. E. P. (1862), 132. Preye we to god vr soules enspire Or we bene logged in eorþe lowe.
c. 1645. Habington, Surv. Worcs., in Worcs. Hist. Soc. Proc., I. 95. Sir Humfrey Stafford maryed Elianor lodged with him in thys sepulchre.
b. refl. To establish oneself, take up ones quarters. † In early use, = sense 7.
c. 1375. Barbour, Bruce, II. 304. In the woud thaim logyt thai; The thrid part went to the forray.
c. 1400. Maundev. (1839), xviii. 193. There ben also in that Contree a kynde of Snayles, that ben so grete, that many persones may loggen hem in here Schelles.
c. 1489. Caxton, Sonnes of Aymon, v. 132. Reynawde sayd to his folke, go we lodge vs.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, lxxxi. 246. I came & lodged me in the abbey.
1632. J. Hayward, trans. Biondis Eromena, 108. They lodged themselves in Terranova as well as they could.
1711. Lond. Gaz., No. 4899/2. The Enemy quitted the Bastion , where our Men lodgd themselves, without any Opposition.
† c. fig. To harbor, entertain (feelings, thoughts). Obs.
1583. Babington, Commandm., vi. (1637), 52. That say Racha, or thou foole to their brethren, that is, that shew their hearts to lodge an unlawfull affection towards them.
1593. Shaks., Rich. III., II. i. 65. If euer any grudge were lodgd betweene vs.
1623. Penkethman, Handf. Hon., IV. § 43. Lodge not suspect, lest thou still wretched be.
a. 1708. Beveridge, Thes. Theol. (1711), III. 20. Dost thou not often lodge vain thoughts?
d. Of a chamber, house, etc.: To serve as a lodging or habitation for. Often transf. and fig. of things: To contain, be the receptacle of; in passive, to be contained in something.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., V. vii. 521. Whi ben so manye ostries clepid innes for to logge gistis, thouȝ in fewer of hem alle gestis myȝten be loggid?
1592. Davies, Immort. Soul, XXII. iii. The Brain doth lodge the Powrs of Sense.
1593. Shaks., Lucr., 1530. Saying, some shape in Sinons was abusd; So faire a forme lodgd not a mind so ill.
a. 1626. Bacon, New Atl. (1900), 6. And the other 15 Chambers were to lodge us two and two together.
1715. Cheyne, Philos. Princ. Nat. Relig., II. 63. The Memory [can] lodge a greater store of Images, than all the Senses can present at one time.
1729. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Fossils, I. I. 182. Mundick Grains shot into several Figures; lodgd part of them in a blueish grey, and part in a brown Stone.
1747. Berkeley, Tar-water in Plague, Wks. 1871, III. 485. The fine oil, in which the vegetable salts are lodged.
1795. Herschel, in Phil. Trans., LXXXV. 353. As tenons of any kind, in an apparatus continually to be exposed to the open air, will bring on a premature decay, by lodging wet.
1826. Lamb, Elia, Ser. II. Pop. Fallacies, ix. Perhaps the mind of man is not capacious enough to lodge two puns at a time.
1830. Knox, Béclands Anat., 266. The conformation of the skull, and that of the vertebral canal depend greatly upon that of the nervous centre which they lodge.
1835. S. Smith, Philos. Health, I. v. 216. The size of the spinal canal, accurately adapted to that of the spinal cord, which it lodges and protects.
1871. R. Ellis, trans. Catullus, lxvii. 4. Once, when his home, time was, lodged him, a master in years.
e. To receive into, or keep as an inmate of, ones house for payment; to have as a lodger.
1741. trans. DArgens Chinese Lett., i. 3. Come along with me, Sir, you shall be very welcome. I commonly lodge all Gentlemen that come to this Place.
1833. Ht. Martineau, Vanderput & S., vi. 90. A peasant who had undertaken to lodge the workmen.
1884. N. Hall, in Chr. Commw., 6 Nov., 43/4. Lincoln, in early life, was so poor that he asked a shoemaker to lodge him.
† f. ? To lay to rest (fig.). Obs. rare.
a. 1658. Cleveland, May Day, ix. Then crown the Bowl, let every Conduit run Canary, till we lodge the reeling Sun.
3. To place, deposit.
a. To put and cause to remain in a specified place of custody or security.
1666. Pepys, Diary, 9 Aug. Money, to enable me to pay Sir G. Carterets 3000l., which he hath lodged in my hands.
1690. Locke, Hum. Und., II. x. § 7 (1825), 88. In this viewing again the ideas that are lodged in the memory, the mind is oftentimes more than barely passive.
17101. Swift, Jrnl. to Stella, 25 March. I wish Mrs. Brent could contrive to put up my books in boxes, and lodge them in some safe place.
1713. Derham, Phys.-Theol., V. vi. (1714), 309. How could we plant the curious and great Variety of Bones necessary to the Support, and every Motion of the Body? where could we lodge all the Arteries and Veins to convey Nourishment?
1802. Mar. Edgeworth, Moral T. (1816), I. 212. Their orders were to lodge count L. in a state prison.
1810. Naval Chron., XXIV. 459. A reward of Six Dollars will be given for apprehending and lodging him in the Cage.
1827. O. W. Roberts, Voy. Centr. Amer., 52. His object was to lodge supplies of goods at various trading depots.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., iv. I. 623. Soon after Monmouth had been lodged in the Tower, he was informed that [etc.].
1866. Crump, Banking, ix. 177. The issue of receipts by the goldsmiths for money lodged in their hands.
1871. B. Stewart, Heat, § 70. A new standard and four authorized copies were made and lodged at the office of the Exchequer.
1882. Pebody, Eng. Journalism, xx. 149. Messrs. Stevenson and Salt are my bankers. Lodge £15,000 there to my credit, and within a week you shall have a daily evening paper.
† b. To place in the memory (J.). Obs.
1622. Bacon, Hen. VII., 37. Which cunning the King would not vnderstand, though he lodged it, and noted it in some particulars, as his manner was.
c. To deposit in court or with some appointed officer a formal statement of (an information, complaint, objection, etc.). Hence, in popular language, to bring forward, allege (an objection, etc.).
1708. Ld. Sunderland, in Ellis, Orig. Lett., Ser. II. IV. 250. Several merchants on the other side have lodged a Petition against him.
175462. Hume, Hist. Eng. (1806), IV. lvii. 354. The impeachment which the king had lodged against him.
1802. Mar. Edgeworth, Moral T. (1822), I. xv. 122. A magistrate, with whom informations had been lodged.
1885. Cave, in Law Times Rep., LII. 627/2. The objection which has been lodged against this appeal is necessarily fatal.
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., II. xxxvi. 20. An American may never be reminded of the Federal Government except when he lodges a complaint against the Post-Office.
1891. Law Times, XCII. 106/2. Persons who have any interest in land which is sought to be registered can lodge a caution with the registering officer.
d. To vest, cause to reside, or represent as residing, in a specified person or thing; to place (power, etc.) with or in the hands of a person.
1670. Walton, Life of Hooker, 40. Acts of Parliament, intending the better preservation of the church-lands, by recalling a power which was vested in others to sell or lease them, by lodging and trusting the future care and protection of them only in the crown.
a. 1677. Hale, Prim. Orig. Man., II. iii. 142. The Heathen Authors allow not above 1400 years at most for the continuance of the Assyrian Monarchy, and lodge the Original of it in Belus.
1712. Berkeley, Pass. Obed., § 3, Wks. 1871, III. 108. Neither shall I consider where or in what persons the supreme or legislative power is lodged in this or that government.
a. 1715. Burnet, Own Time (1724), I. 364. So he lodged it [viz. a dispute] now where he wished it might be, in a point of prerogative.
1752. Young, Brothers, IV. i. Wks. 1757, II. 260. When all our hopes are lodgd in such expedients, Tis as if poison were our only food.
1752. Hume, Ess., v. Indep. Parl. (1768), 31. The power of the Crown is always lodged in a single person.
1804. Wellesley, in Owen, Desp., 277. The Peishwas power was lodged by another train of events in the hands of Scindiah.
1817. Jas. Mill, Brit. India, III. vi. i. 52. The powers which were lodged with the Board of Control were lodged without danger.
1818. Cruise, Digest, VI. 381. And they could not take in that manner but by lodging an estate tail in George Grew.
1855. Prescott, Philip II., II. v. (1857), 251. Philip, on leaving the country, lodged the administration nominally in three councils.
1868. E. Arber, Introd. to Seldens Table-T., 11. Selden lodges the Civil Power of England in the King and the Parliament.
1869. Haddan, Apost. Succ., iii. (1879), 62. There can be no ministry save where the Apostles have lodged the power of appointing one.
1888. Bryce, Amer. Commw., II. lii. 314. The powers thus taken away from the common council, are ordinarily lodged with boards made up of the higher city officials.
e. To get (a thing) into the intended place; esp. to succeed in causing (a weapon, a blow) to fall and take effect where it is aimed.
1611. Cotgr., s.v. Escusson, Enter en escusson, to lodge that bud in the bark of a tree by an incision of the forme of a T.
1680. Otway, Orphan, I. i. (1691), 3. When on the brink the foaming Boar I met, And in his side thought to have lodgd my spear.
1713. Addison, Cato, II. iii. O could my dying hand but lodge a sword in Cæsars bosom.
1777. Sheridan, Sch. for Scandal, V. ii. Sir Peter is dangerously wounded By a bullet lodged in the thorax.
1853. Lytton, My Novel, xii. 50. I was shot at in cold blood, by an officer who lodged a ball in my right shoulder.
f. Mil. (a) † To point, level (cannon). (b) To place (the colors) in position. (c) To lodge arms (see quot. 1867).
1627. Capt. Smith, Seamans Gram., xiii. 60. Keepe your loufe and loge your ordnance againe.
1783. Encycl. Brit., 8968/1. Signals by the Drum. Two long rolls, To bring or lodge the colours.
1802. C. James, Milit. Dict., To lodge arms.
1867. Smyth, Sailors Word-bk., 452. Lodge arms, the word of command to an armed party preparatory to their breaking off.
g. To throw (something) so that it lodges or is caught in its fall (cf. sense 8); to cause to lodge or be intercepted; (of a current, etc.) to deposit in passing.
1606. Shaks., Ant. & Cl., IV. xii. 45. Let me lodge Licas on the hornes o th Moone.
1677. Yarranton, Eng. Improv., 41. The Stones near the Shore lay so great and thick, that they were the occasion of lodging the Sands by them.
1808. Pike, Sources of Mississ. (1810), III. 221. This crate or butment was filled with stone, in which the river had lodged sand, clay, &c. until it had become of a tolerable firm consistency.
1863. Geo. Eliot, Romola, i. (1880), 21. He wore a close jerkin, a skull-cap lodged carelessly over his left ear, as if it had fallen there by chance.
† h. To set or fasten in a socket or the like. Obs.
1726. Swift, Gulliver, III. iii. 38. A Groove twelve Inches deep, in which the Extremities of the Axle are lodged.
1748. Ansons Voy., III. v. 341. The heel of the yard is always lodged in one of the sockets.
1776. G. Semple, Building in Water, 134. Let a Coffer be made and lodged upon any hard level Ground.
1792. Falconer, Shipwr., I. (ed. 8), 793. They lodge the bars, and wheel the engine round.
1825. E. Hewlett, Cottage Comf., v. 38. A scraper at each door might be furnished at no expense, and very little trouble; a bit of iron hoop lodged into two strong sticks.
4. To discover the lodge of (a buck).
1576. Turberv., Venerie, 239. We herbor and unherbor a Harte, we lodge and rowse a Bucke.
1640. trans. Verderes Rom. of Rom., II. 155. I would not walk thus with a purpose to lie all night in the wood, if it were not to lodge him Deer which to morrow he means to hunt.
1713. Addison, Cato, IV. ii. The deer is lodgd. Ive trackd her to her covert.
1741. Compl. Fam.-Piece, IV. i. 292. Nor is there required that Skill in lodging a Buck, as there is in harbouring a Stag.
1823. Scott, Peveril, vii. I thought of going to lodge a buck in the park, judging a bit of venison might be wanted.
† b. transf. ? To track (a fugitive) to his refuge.
a. 1625. Beaum. & Fl., Bonduca, IV. i. Are those come in yet that pursud bold Caratach? Not yet, Sir, for I think they mean to lodge him; take him I know they dare not.
5. To throw down on the ground, lay flat. Now only of rain or wind: To beat down crops. (Cf. ledge, LAY v.1 1 c.)
1593. Shaks., Rich. II., III. iii. 162. Weele make foule Weather with despised Teares: Our sighes, and they, shall lodge the Summer Corne, And make a Dearth in this reuolting Land. Ibid. (1605), Macb., IV. i. 55. Though bladed Corne be lodgd, & Trees blown downe.
1621. Sandys, Ovids Met., I. (1626), 7. The Corne is lodgd, the Husband-men despaire.
1653. Milton, Ps. vii. 18. Let th enemy tread My life down to the earth and roul In the dust my glory dead, In the dust and there out spread Lodge it with dishonour foul.
1760. Brown, Compl. Farmer, II. 72. If rye or wheat be lodged, cut it though it be not thorough ripe.
1763. Museum Rusticum, I. 10. Land may be made too rich for flax, which will undoubtedly lodge it, that is, occasion its prematurely lying flat to the ground.
1843. Zoologist, I. 297. Hedge-row trees are a great nuisance, blighting the hedges, lodging the crops and harbouring the plundering ring-dove.
1897. Evesham Jrnl., 24 July (E.D.D.). Winter oats lodged by the little rain.
II. intr.
† 6. To encamp. Obs.
13[?]. K. Alis., 4098. With his ost he after ferd, And there he [Alisaunder] loggith anon, Ther Darie hadde beon erst apon.
c. 1440. Lonelich, Grail, xliv. 418. Whanne the kyng was Comen to-fore þat Castel, he gan to loggen bothe faire & wel.
c. 1500. Melusine, xxxvi. 281. They concluded that on the morne theire oost shuld lodge a leghe nygh to the Sarasyns.
1603. Knolles, Hist. Turks (1621), 1251. With his armie encamped in the self same place where the Turks armie had but the yere before lodged.
7. To remain or dwell temporarily in a place; esp. to pass the night, sleep. Now rare.
13[?]. E. E. Allit. P., B. 807. Þay wolde lenge þe long naȝt & logge þer-oute.
c. 1400. Maundev. (Roxb.), xxv. 118. Þare þer þai schall luge ilk a nyght, þai schall fynd before þam redily puruayd all maner of thinges.
c. 1470. Henry, Wallace, I. 287. In Dunfermlyn thai lugyt all that nycht.
c. 1475[?]. Squyr lowe Degre, 180. Yf ye may no harbroughe se, Than must ye lodge under a tre.
a. 1533. Ld. Berners, Huon, lxviii. 235. They lodged in the strete next to the palays in a good hostrye.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Edw. IV., 228. For at the gates entered but a few that were apoynted, the remnant lodged in the feldes.
1593. Shaks., 2 Hen. VI., I. i. 80. Did he so often lodge in open field, In Winters cold, and Summers parching Heate, To conquer France.
1596. Dalrymple, trans. Leslies Hist. Scot., II. 124. That nycht he ludget with ane Thomas Leslie, quha maid him a saft bed, with fair couerings dekit with al decore.
1597. A. M., trans. Guillemeaus Fr. Chirurg., 53 b. The poore souldiours, who being wounded, must lodge on the earth.
1611. Bible, Job xxiv. 7. They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they haue no couering in the cold.
1650. Jer. Taylor, Holy Living, ii. § 6. 139. Here thou art but a stranger travelling to thy Countrey ; it is therefore a huge folly to be much afflicted because thou hast a lesse convenient Inne to lodge in by the way.
165262. Heylin, Cosmogr., II. (1677), 339. The extreme coldness of the Country is so fierce that generally they lodg between two Feather-beds.
1667. Milton, P. L., IV. 790. Ithuriel and Zephon Search through this Garden, But chiefly where those two fair Creatures Lodge, Now laid perhaps asleep secure of harme.
1669. Pepys, Diary, 19 Feb. After seeing the girls, who lodged in our bed, with their maid Martha, I to the office.
1724. R. Wodrow, Life of Jas. Wodrow (1828), 68. He was several times forced to lodge in the open fields in the night time.
1778. Mad. DArblay, Evelina (1791), II. 246. The Captain will lodge at the Wells.
1781. Gibbon, Decl. & F., II. xlvi. 734. He lodged in the cottage of a peasant.
1888. Daily News, 18 Oct., 5/3. One boy of fifteen, for example, was sent to this dismal sojourn for the offence of lodging in the open air. Lodging, we assume, means sleeping.
1900. A. Lang, in Blackw. Mag., Dec., 901/2. Darnley was to lodge at Craigmillar.
b. In a wider sense: To have ones abode; to dwell, reside. In later use chiefly transf. and fig. of a thing = to have its seat, reside, be placed. Now rare.
1362. Langl., P. Pl., A. IX. 7. Was neuer wiht as I wente that me wisse couthe Wher this ladde loggede lasse ne more.
c. 1400. Destr. Troy, v. 1631. Priam by purpos a pales gert make, Louely and large to logge in hym seluyn.
1463. Bury Wills (Camd. Soc.), 21. He and his successours to logge there.
1567. J. Maplet, Gr. Forest, 27 b. The bark which is the defence (and as I mought so say) their house to lodge in.
1598. Yong, Diana, 302. But he, that in high and loftie houses lodgeth (though the thunderclap smite him not) may be killed or wounded with the stones, timber, or some other thing that may fall from thence.
1602. Marston, Antonios Rev., III. ii. Wks. 1856, I. 108. O, you departed soules, That lodge in coffind trunkes.
1602. Shaks., Ham., I. v. 87. Leaue her to heauen, And to those Thornes that in her bosome lodge, To pricke and sting her. Ibid., V. i. 252. She should in ground vnsanctified haue lodgd, Till the last Trumpet.
1634. Milton, Comus, 246. Sure something holy lodges in that brest.
1682. Enq. Elect. Sheriffs, 31. The Right of chusing the Sheriffs of London, does by Charter, lodg not in the Lord Mayor alone, but in him, the Court of Aldermen, and the Commons of London.
a. 1792. Wolcot (P. Pindar), Wks., III. 5. The heart that lodges in that misers breast.
1855. Bain, Senses & Int., II. iv. § 19 (1864), 286. A strong sensibility lodges in the lachrymal organ.
c. spec. To reside as an inmate in another persons house, paying a sum of money periodically in return for the accommodation afforded; to be a lodger, to live in lodgings.
1749. Fielding, Tom Jones, XIII. v. (heading in Contents), The Adventure which happened to Mr. Jones at his Lodgings, with some Account of a young Gentleman who lodged there.
1858. Lytton, What will He do? I. i. She and her grandfather lodge with me.
8. To be arrested or intercepted in fall or progress; to stick in a position.
1611. Cotgr., Encrouer, to lodge, as a cudgell in a tree; to hang on, or ledge in.
1647. Cowley, Mistress, Resolved to be Beloved,, II. iv. But if it ought thats soft and yielding hit; It lodges there, and stays in it.
1781. Cowper, Charity, 531. Worms may be caught by either head or tail; Plunged in the stream, they lodge upon the mud.
1796. J. Morse, Amer. Geog., I. 480. In a freshet the flood wood frequently lodges, and in a few minutes the water rises to full banks.
1825. J. Nicholson, Operat. Mechanic, 374. An opening which is nearly round or square, because if it were narrow the stuff might lodge.
1853. Lytton, My Novel, III. xii. 125. I who might have been shot through the lungs, only the ball lodged in the shoulder.
1885. Grant, Pers. Mem., I. xx. 279. A musket ball entered the room, struck the head of the sofa, passed through it and lodged in the foot.
9. Hunting. Of a buck: intr. To betake himself to his lodge or lair. Also quasi-passive, to be in his lodge.
c. 1470. in Hors, Shepe, & G., etc. (Roxb.), 31. A bucke is logged.
c. 1486. Bk. St. Albans, F vij b. A Bucke lodgith.
1615. [see HARBOUR v. 2 c].
1801. Strutt, Sports & Past., I. i. 17. A hart was said to be harbored, a buck lodged [etc.].
1888. P. Lindley, in Times, 16 Oct., 10/5. The hound worked on leash from the spot where the deer had lodged.
10. Of corn: = to be lodged (see 5).
1630. Lennard, trans. Charrons Wisd., III. xxxvii. (1670), 509. As corn lodgeth by too great abundance and boughs overcharged with fruit break asunder.
1731. Tull, Horse-hoeing Husb., xiii. (1733), 151. One Argument, that it lodges for want of Nourishment is, that a rich Acre has maintaind a Crop of Five Quarters standing.
1759. trans. Duhamels Husb., I. iv. (1762), 9. It grew so rank that it lodged, and yielded but little grain.
1884. E. P. Roe, in Harpers Mag., July, 247/1. The growth had been so heavy that in many places it had lodged, or fallen.