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单词 to make or find a lodgement
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to make or find a lodgement
a. The action of establishing oneself or making good a position on an enemy's ground, or obtaining a foothold; hence, a stable position gained, a foothold. Chiefly in to make or find a lodgement.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > where one takes up a position, residence, etc. > stable position gained
lodgement1702
footholda1854
1702 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) V. 229 They were gone to Vigo,..if they found it practicable, to make a lodgment there.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. II. v. 116 Cortes durst not..attempt to make a lodgment in a city.
1816 H. Douglas Ess. Mil. Bridges iv. 104 A bridge may be constructed, and a lodgment made on the further bank of a river.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. ix. 62 My friend, who had found a lodgment upon the edge of a rock.
1897 Gen. H. Porter in Cent. Mag. Jan. 353 Many of our men succeeded in getting over the earthworks, but could not secure a lodgment which could be held.
figurative and in extended use.1780 E. Burke Let. to T. Burgh 1 Jan. in Wks. (1812) V. 168 But then the minister must have taken it up as a great plan of national policy, and paid with his person in every lodgement of his approach.1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller I. 348 I was not perfectly sure that I had effected a lodgment in the young lady's heart.1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral iv. 78 Wycliffe had made a dangerous lodgment in the City of London.1884 L. J. Jennings in Croker Papers I. viii. 222 An intention which seems..never to have held more than a temporary lodgment in his mind.
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