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ledg·er

[lej-er] Pronunciation Key

–noun

1.	Bookkeeping. an account book of final entry, in which business transactions are recorded.

Building Trades.

a.	a horizontal timber fastened to the vertical uprights of a scaffold, to support the putlogs.

b.	ribbon (def. 8).

3.	a flat slab of stone laid over a grave or tomb.

4.	Also, leger. Angling. a lead sinker with a hole in one end through which the line passes, enabling the bait and the sinker to rest on the bottom and allowing the fish to take the bait without detecting the sinker.

[Origin: 1475–85; earlier legger book, prob. equiv. to legg(en) to lay¹ + -er -er¹

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ledg·er (lěj'ər) Pronunciation Key
n.

1. A book in which the monetary transactions of a business are posted in the form of debits and credits.
2. A book to which the record of accounts is transferred as final entry from original postings.
A slab of stone laid flat over a grave.
A horizontal timber in a scaffold, attached to the uprights and supporting the putlogs.

[Middle English legger, breviary, probably from leggen, to lay; see ledge.]

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ledger

"account book," 1401, from leggen "to place, lay" (see lay (v.)). Originally a book that lies in a permanent place (especially a large copy of a breviary in a church). Sense of "book of accounts" is first attested 1588, short for ledger-book (1553).

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ledger
noun
1.	a record in which commercial accounts are recorded; "they got a subpoena to examine our books"
2.	an accounting journal as a physical object; "he bought a new daybook" [syn: daybook]

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Ledger, MT Zip code(s): 59456

U.S. Gazetteer, U.S. Census Bureau

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Ledger

Ledg"er\(l[e^]j"[~e]r), n. [Akin to D. legger layer, daybook (fr. leggen to lay, liggen to lie), E. ledge, lie. See Lie to be prostrate.]

1. A book in which a summary of accounts is laid up or preserved; the final book of record in business transactions, in which all debits and credits from the journal, etc., are placed under appropriate heads. [Written also leger.]

2. (Arch.) (a) A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb. --Oxf. Gloss. (b) A horizontal piece of timber secured to the uprights and supporting floor timbers, a staircase, scaffolding, or the like. It differs from an intertie in being intended to carry weight. [Written also ligger.]

Ledger bait, fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc. --Walton. --J. H. Walsh.

Ledger blade,a stationary shearing blade in a machine for shearing the nap of cloth.

Ledger line. See Leger line, under 3d Leger, a.

Ledger wall (Mining), the wall under a vein; the foot wall. --Raymond.

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