LODGMENT

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

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.
n.

A lodging place; a room. [Obs.]

3.
n.

An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.

4.
n.

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.


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