lodgement
lodgment AmE

After a month of fighting the French made a lodgement in the covered way.

"Only if they make a lodgement will we bring up your galley."

One good lodgement for his foot and he could thrust himself up into the hole.

That way, the enemy cannot shoot many of us before we gain a lodgement in the town.

We've got a lodgement there, right at the base of the Rise."

In India a lodgement is commonly used for proofs of tax deduction.

But since its lodgement is in the heart not the brain, no degree of intellect supplies a guarantee against it.

Chiefly in phrases to make or find a lodgement."

It clanged as it found new lodgement in the rubble.

In certain Member States, lodgement may also be required at office(s) of subsequent entry.

Can it be that there is some sort of lodgement or projection into physical reality where these manifestations congregate?

Its roots spread under the soil, anchoring it, leaving no room for other plants to find lodgement.

Each lodgement was made two or three days after a Grand Prix race."

They are used for tactical beach lodgement, and can carry up to 100 tonnes of cargo.

The bullet shivered glass and metal; found its lodgement in the thug's shoulder.

He had known what Smith hadn't: where to find a secure lodgement for his hand on the smooth expanse of that roof.

The plan called for the formations near the border to seize favorable lodgement areas, to screen the main attack of the army.

Overlord was the name assigned to the establishment of a large-scale lodgement on the Continent.

Then on March 25 the men of the First had burst out of the lodgement with incredible force.

Unable to find lodgement on that convex surface, it fell to the floor and rolled under an adjacent table.

She rode out into an open space where a loose earth-slide denied lodgement to trees and grass.

However, the lodgement was nearly lost when a Soviet counterattack supported by about 40 tanks clattered into the corps.

Plans for revenge surged through his brain, and at last a great and wicked determination found lodgement there.

Whatever the problems, the invading forces overcame the initial opposition, and made a firm lodgement everywhere except at Omaha.

The peak lodgement was between 8pm and 9pm on census night, when more than 72,000 online forms were received.

It must be taken in time and not allowed to get a lodgment.

Say that we have made a lodgment within the walls.

Yet I was no more than a modest petitioner for lodgment.

With the lodgment of this thought she stopped in wide-eyed terror.

Only the date itself is familiar and sure: its vast Fact has failed of lodgment.

We then made a lodgment on the side of the mount near the stockade.

Had our flank not made a lodgment across the river, it is impossible that we could have carried the position.

The door opened, and Marvel made a frantic effort to obtain a lodgment behind it.

Scouts were ordered out "so as to discover his first lodgment, when they can be broken up."

Missing The Shadow's body, it had found lodgment in the wall by the window.

He must have been so saturated with alcohol as to defy the lodgment of germs.

These hard thoughts, this envy, this bitterness, make no lodgment in me.

Thus, I hope hence finds a lodgment in our daily vocabulary.)

Our feet found lodgment in the firmer earth which had resisted the passage of the monster rock.

My judgment is to spell it lodgment.

Over two consecutive nights, attempts to move men and supplies into Urquhart's lodgment had failed.

Cautiously, he freed his hook from its lodgment on the wall's inner edge and then lowered it slowly down into the dark.

The beam found lodgment again, and again the metal burned white-hot.

At some locations, these sediments have been eroded or removed exposing the lodgment till.

"You think yon tower affords but a gloomy lodgment?"

Roger found a lodgment for his point and began to push till he was leaning with his whole weight.

The length of the lariat slipped through his fingers and the rope was following when suddenly the rock found lodgment at the bottom.

Snatching it, quivering from its lodgment, the mate hurled it back.

I chopped down on Jack Leeds's wrist, knocking his hand from its intimate lodgment.

By spelling lodgment without the e in the middle, we assure the pronunciation in two syllables.