Lodgment \Lodg"ment\, n. [Written also lodgement.]

[Cf. F. logement. See Lodge, v.]

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)