lodging turn

noun

1. a period of work or duty, esp among railway workers, which involves sleeping away from home

Example Sentences

Will stab their prisoners when they cry for quarter, Will burn our towns, and from his lodging turn The poor inhabitant to sleep in tempests!—

From Project Gutenberg

E'en as a man may leave his home And to a distant village roam, Then from his lodging turn away And journey on the following day, Such brief possession mortals hold In sire and mother, house and gold, And never will the good and wise The brief uncertain lodging prize.

From Project Gutenberg