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noun

Lodgment n. (Written also lodgement)

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."

A lodging place; a room. (Obs.)

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

(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.

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Etymology of 'Lodgment'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... on an alguazil (constable) in a pleurisy; he was condemned to be bled with the utmost rigor of the law, at the same time that the system was to be replenished copiously with water. Next I made a lodgment in the veins of a gouty pastry-cook, who roared like a lion by reason of gouty spasms. I stood on no more ceremony with his blood than with that of the alguazil, and laid no restriction on his taste for simple ...

— International Short Stories: French • Various

... confident that a careful, open-minded reading of these pages and an acceptance of the ideas therein promulgated would aid in preventing a good deal of the misery of jealousy and in curing a certain proportion of it after it has found lodgment in the hearts of unhappy men ...

— Woman - Her Sex and Love Life • William J. Robinson

... feminine instinct, every female grasshopper burrowed into the dry earth, making a hole which would receive almost her entire body back of her wings and legs. The spring sod, half rotted and loosened from the grass roots, furnished the best lodgment. In each hole, as deep down as her body could reach, her pouch ...

— The Wind Before the Dawn • Dell H. Munger

... their environment or their natures, and no power on earth could change them. Over greater England had swept the Romans, the Jutes, the Saxons, the Angles, the Norsemen, and the Normans. All found lodgment and all went to the making of England. Well, one might say, it had been for Ireland if she had developed that assimilating power which made her successive conquerors in process of time the feeders of her greatness, but the Irish would ...

— The Glories of Ireland • Edited by Joseph Dunn and P.J. Lennox

... desk; the paper fluttered from his cold fingers; when once more John Steele buttoned his coat the affidavit had again found lodgment in ...

— Half A Chance • Frederic S. Isham

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