\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.