lodge vs place

lodge

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

  • 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. 

  • 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. 

verb
  • 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 be firmly fixed in a specified position. 

  • 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. 

place

noun
  • The area where one lives: one's home, formerly (chiefly) country estates and farms. 

  • An inhabited area: a village, town, or city. 

  • Numerically, the column counting a certain quantity. 

  • A state of mind. 

  • The position of first, second, or third at the finish, especially the second position. 

  • An area of the body, especially the skin. 

  • An open space, particularly a city square, market square, or courtyard. 

  • The position of a contestant in a competition. 

  • A location or position in space. 

  • Reception; effect; implying the making room for. 

  • The area one occupies, particularly somewhere to sit. 

  • A role or purpose; a station. 

  • A street, sometimes but not always surrounding a public place, square, or plaza of the same name. 

  • A particular location in a book or document, particularly the current location of a reader. 

  • The position as a member of a sports team. 

  • Ordinal relation; position in the order of proceeding. 

  • An area to urinate and defecate: an outhouse or lavatory. 

  • Any area of the earth: a region. 

verb
  • To arrange for or to make (a bet). 

  • To finish second, especially of horses or dogs. 

  • To sing (a note) with the correct pitch. 

  • To earn a given spot in a competition. 

  • To rank at (a certain position, often followed by an ordinal) as in a horse race. 

  • To remember where and when (an object or person) has been previously encountered. 

  • To establish a call (connection by telephone or similar). 

  • To put (an object or person) in a specific location. 

  • To recruit or match an appropriate person for a job, or a home for an animal for adoption, etc. 

  • To place-kick (a goal). 

How often have the words lodge and place occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )