Reverse Dictionary: LODGING

NOUNS
– BEING a home, a dwelling-place, a lodging …1839 Sc. & Eng. dial.
– CABINET † a little cabin, hut, soldier’s tent; a rustic cottage; a dwelling, lodging; a den of a beast …1572
– CANTING-ACADEMY a common lodging-house …Bk1921 sl.
– CHEAP JOHN a flophouse; a cheap brothel; a dirty, dilapidated saloon …20C Amer. sl.
– CHINCH a cheap hotel or rooming house …20C US sl.
– CHINCH PAD a hotel; a cheap rooming house …1958 US Black sl.
– COT HOUSE a cheap rooming house or ‘hotel’, esp. in a town based on an oil-drilling camp …M19 sl.
– CRUMB HOUSE a flop-house infested with lice …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– CRUMB JOINT a flop-house infested with lice …Bk1974 Amer. sl.
– DIET board, keep …Bk1900 Ireland
– DIGGINGS lodgings …Brit. colloq.
– DIGS lodgings, be it a room, flat, or house …1893 UK sl.
– DOSSER a cheap lodging-house, esp. for vagrants …1889 sl., orig. & chiefly Brit.
– DOSS-HOUSE a cheap lodging-house, esp. for vagrants …1889 sl., orig. & chiefly Brit.
– EASEMENT † refreshment by food and repose; hence, comfortable accommodation, food and lodging …c1400
– EASE-ROOM † a comfortable lodging-room …1629
– ENTERTAINMENT lodging and food …1621 N. Ireland
– FLASH-DISPENSARY a boarding-house …Bk1893 Amer. sl.
– FLOP a cheap lodging-house; a place to sleep; a bed …1910 US sl.
– FLOP BOX a hotel room, a bedroom, lodgings …1976 US sl.
– FLOP JOINT an inexpensive, shoddy, tattered, dirty place to stay, catering to transients …1928 US sl.
– FLOP-HOUSE a cheap lodging-house, esp. for vagrants …1909 sl., orig. US
– HARBERGAGE 1. † a place of lodging or entertainment; an inn …a1300
2. † lodging, entertainment …c1386
– HARBERGERY 1. † a place of lodging or entertainment; an inn …a1300
2. † lodging, entertainment …1303
– HARBERY 1. † shelter, lodging …a1300 Sc. & N. Eng.
2. † a place of shelter; a lodging-place …c1325 Sc. & N. Eng.
– HARBOUR 1. shelter, lodging, entertainment; sojourn, abode …c1150
2. † a place of shelter or sojourn; lodgings, quarters, resting-place; a place of entertainment, an inn; a place of refuge, asylum …c1300 obs. exc. Eng. dial.
– HARBOURAGE 1. shelter, lodging …1570
  2. a place of shelter; a lodging …1651
– HARBOURY 1. † shelter, lodging …a1300 Sc. & N. Eng.
2. † a place of shelter; a lodging-place …c1325 Sc. & N. Eng.
– HARBRY 1. † shelter, lodging …a1300 Sc. & N. Eng.
2. † a place of shelter; a lodging-place …c1325 Sc. & N. Eng.
– HEAFING a lodging, abode …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HERBERGAGE 1. † a place of lodging or entertainment; an inn …a1300
2. † lodging, entertainment …c1386
– HERBERGERY 1. † a place of lodging or entertainment; an inn …a1300
2. † lodging, entertainment …1303
– KIP a lodging house; lodgings, esp. a hotel room or apartment …1883 sl.
– LAY * a place of lying or lodging; lair of animals …1590
– LETARI a lodging …1900s UK tramps’ sl.
– LETTARY a lodging …1900s UK tramps’ sl.
– LETTY a lodging; a bed …1846 sl.
– MANSION 1. † a structure or edifice serving as a dwelling or lodging place; a house, a tent, etc. …a1340
2. † a separate dwelling-place, lodging, or apartment in a large house or enclosure; chiefly plural …c1400
– MODEL a model lodging-house …L19 Sc.
– NEST a lodging, shelter, home, bed, etc., esp. of a secluded or comfortable nature; a snug retreat …a1000
– PACK a night lodging for the very poor …M19 sl.
– PADDEN-CRIB a boys’ or youths’ lodging-house …1839 UK sl.
– PADDING KEN a low, cheap, lodging-house …1839 criminals’ sl.
– PAD DOUGH money for a night’s lodging or for admission to an opium den …1900s US sl.
– PAD MONEY money for a night’s lodging or for admission to an opium den …1900s US sl.
– PADDEN CRIB n. a lodging house …M19 Aust. & UK criminals’ sl.
– PADDEN KEN a lodging house frequented primarily by vagrants or thieves …M19 Aust. & UK criminals’ sl.
– PADDING-CRIB a lodging-house for vagabonds, tramps, vagrants …1851 sl.
– PADDING-KEN a lodging-house for vagabonds, tramps, vagrants …1851 sl.
– PAD MONEY money for lodgings …1904 US sl.
– PECK AND PERCH food and lodging …1828 sl.
– RAG HOUSE a cheap rooming house or ‘hotel’, esp. in a town based on an oil-drilling camp …M19 sl.
– RAG SHANTY a cheap rooming house or ‘hotel’, esp. in a town based on an oil-drilling camp …M19 sl.
– SLOP AND FLOP meals and lodging …1953 US sl.
– SPIKE a cheap lodging-house …1866
– TABLING † the act of providing or fact of being provided with meals; provision of food; boarding, board …a1553 now rare or obs.
– UP-PUT lodging, entertainment …Bk1905 Sc.
– UP-PUTTING accommodation; lodging; entertainment for man or beast …1815 Sc. & Eng. dial.

NOUNS, PERSON
– ARTFUL DODGER a lodger …B1857 rhyming sl.
– COMMON HERBERGER † a common lodging-house keeper …1502
– DADDY the old man, generally an aged pauper, in charge at a tramps’ lodging house or casual ward …M19 sl.
– FATHER the owner of a common lodging house …M19 sl.
– HARBINGER 1. † one who provides lodging; an entertainer, a host …c1175
2. one sent on before to purvey lodgings for an army, a royal train, etc.; a purveyor of lodgings …c1386
– HARBOURER one who shelters or entertains; an entertainer, a host …1548
– JOLLY ROGER a lodger …20C rhyming sl.
– MAT a public house or lodging-house landlady …M19 sl.
– MEALER a boarder …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– MIVEY, MIVVY, MIVY the landlady of a lodging-house …L19 sl.
– MOT, MOTT, MOTTE a public house or lodging-house landlady …M19 sl.
– MOTT OF THE KEN the landlady of a criminal lodging-house …1852 UK sl.
– PERHENDINANCER †* a sojourner, a lodger …1489
– QUARTERER one who takes up quarters; a lodger …1648 
– QUARTER-MAN a lodger; one who is furnished with temporary lodgings …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– SAW the landlady of a cheap rooming house …1940s US Black sl.
– TABLER † 1. one who gets his meals at another’s table for payment; a boarder …1598 obs. or rare
† 2. one who boards persons …1665

VERBS
– BED † to lodge, to find a resting-place …c1175
– BESTOW to lodge, to quarter; to put up; to provide with a resting place or sleeping place …1577 arch.
– HARBINGE † to lodge; to take up one’s quarters …c1475
– HARBRY to shelter, to lodge …1375 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– HEAF to lodge, to reside, to live …Bk1902 Eng. dial.
– HERBERY to shelter, to lodge …1375 Sc. & N. Eng. dial.
– KENNEL of a person: to lodge or lurk; to inhabit, to dwell; used contemptuously …1599
– KIP to lodge …L19 sl.
– LEAGUER †* to ‘lie’, to lodge ..1596
– LIE to lodge, stay the night; to sojourn …arch.
– MEAL to board …Bk1913-17 Amer. dial.
– QUARTER to lodge; to obtain board and lodging at an inn, etc. …1787 Eng. dial.
– TAKE IN to receive lodgers …Bk1905 Eng. dial.
– TAKE UP to lodge, to put up, to take up residence …1852 Amer. dial.
– TARRY to lodge someplace; to sojourn, to abide temporarily …1704 Amer. dial.
– DIG to have lodgings …Brit. colloq.
– HAIL UP to stay at an inn or similar lodging …L19 Aust. sl.
– HARBOUR † to provide a lodging or lodging-place for; to shelter from the weather or the night; to lodge, entertain …c1150
– WAIT to lodge, to make one’s (temporary) home …1951 Sc.