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Webster 1913 Edition
Lodgment
1.
The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.
Any particle which is of size enough to make a
lodgment
afterwards in the small arteries. Paley.
2.
A lodging place; a room.
[Obs.]
3.
An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.
4.
(Mil.)
The occupation and holding of a position, as by a besieging party; an instrument thrown up in a captured position;
as, to effect a
. lodgment
Webster 1828 Edition
Lodgment
LODG'MENT
, n.1.
The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged; a being placed or deposited at rest for keeping for a time or for permanence.2.
Accumulation or collection of something deposited or remaining at rest.3.
In military affairs, an encampment made by an army.4.
A work cast up by besiegers, during their approaches, in some dangerous post which they have gained, and where it is necessary to secure themselves against the enemy's fire.