Lodgment

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·v A lodging place; a room.

II. Lodgment ·v The act of lodging, or the state of being lodged.

III. Lodgment ·v An accumulation or collection of something deposited in a place or remaining at rest.

IV. Lodgment ·v 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.