lay vs lodge

lay

verb
  • To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position. 

  • To take a position; to come or go. 

  • To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)). 

  • To have sex with. 

  • To place (new type) properly in the cases. 

  • To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone. 

  • To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.). 

  • To produce and deposit an egg. 

  • To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface. 

  • To apply; to put. 

  • To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk. 

  • To bet (that something is or is not the case). 

  • To point; to aim. 

  • To be in a horizontal position; to lie (from confusion with lie). 

  • To present or offer. 

  • simple past tense of lie when pertaining to position. 

  • To state; to allege. 

  • To impute; to charge; to allege. 

  • To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them. 

  • To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another. 

  • To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle). 

noun
  • The direction a rope is twisted. 

  • A casual sexual partner. 

  • A lake. 

  • A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung. 

  • What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest? 

  • Arrangement or relationship; layout. 

  • An act of sexual intercourse. 

  • A share of the profits in a business. 

  • A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance. 

  • The laying of eggs. 

adj
  • Non-professional; not being a member of an organized institution. 

  • Not trumps. 

  • Not belonging to the clergy, but associated with them. 

lodge

verb
  • To be firmly fixed in a specified position. 

  • To place (a statement, etc.) with the proper authorities (such as courts, etc.). 

  • To become flattened, as grass or grain, when overgrown or beaten down by the wind. 

  • To stay in a boarding-house, paying rent to the resident landlord or landlady. 

  • To supply with a room or place to sleep in for a time. 

  • To drive (an animal) to covert. 

  • To cause to flatten, as grass or grain. 

  • To firmly fix in a specified position. 

  • To stay in any place or shelter. 

  • To put money, jewellery, or other valuables for safety. 

noun
  • A beaver's shelter constructed on a pond or lake. 

  • The space at the mouth of a level next to the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; called also platt. 

  • A collection of objects lodged together. 

  • An indigenous American home, such as tipi or wigwam. By extension, the people who live in one such home; a household. 

  • A local chapter of some fraternities, such as freemasons. 

  • A rural hotel or resort, an inn. 

  • A building for recreational use such as a hunting lodge or a summer cabin. 

  • A local chapter of a trade union. 

  • A den or cave. 

  • The chamber of an abbot, prior, or head of a college. 

  • A family of Native Americans, or the persons who usually occupy an Indian lodge; as a unit of enumeration, reckoned from four to six persons. 

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