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Leger

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leg⋅er

  [lej-er]
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–noun Angling.
ledger (def. 4).

Lé⋅ger

  [ley-zhey]
–noun
1. A⋅lex⋅is Saint-Lé⋅ger  [a-lek-see san-ley-zhey] . St.-John Perse.
2. Fer⋅nand  [fer-nahn] , 1881–1955, French artist.

ledg⋅er

  [lej-er]
–noun
1. Bookkeeping. an account book of final entry, in which business transactions are recorded.
2. 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 lay 1 + -er -er 1
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Lé·ger   (lā-zhā')   
French poet and diplomat whose works include Anabase (1924) and Chronique (1960). He won the 1960 Nobel Prize for literature.
Léger, Fernand 1881-1955.  
French artist. An early cubist who worked in bright flat colors, Léger incorporated industrial and mechanical images into his work.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

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).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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