Emily Dickinson Lexicon

LODG'MENT, n. [Fr. logement.]

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. Accumulation or collection of something deposited or remaining at rest.
3. In military affairs, an encampment made by an army.
4. A work cast up by besiegers, during their approaches, in some dangerous post which they have gained, and where it is necessary to secure themselves against the enemy's fire. – Cyc.