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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

Lŏdg'ment, n.

noun

n. [Written also lodgement.] [Fr. logement, It. loggiamento, alloggiamento, Sp. alojamiento. See LODGE, v.]

  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. A lodging-place; room.
  3. Accumulation or collection of something deposited or remaining at rest.
  4. (Mil.) The occupation of a position, as in a siege, by the besieging party, and the formation of an intrenchment thereon to maintain it against recapture; as, to effect a lodgment. Scott.