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ledg⋅er

  [lej-er]
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–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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rib⋅bon

  [rib-uhn]
–noun
1. a woven strip or band of fine material, as silk or rayon, varying in width and finished off at the edges, used for ornament, tying, etc.
2. material in such strips.
3. anything resembling or suggesting a ribbon or woven band.
4. a band of inked material used in a typewriter, adding machine, etc., that supplies ink for printing the figure on the striking typeface onto the paper beneath.
5. a strip of material, as satin or rayon, being or representing a medal or similar decoration, esp. a military one: an overseas ribbon.
6. ribbons,
a. torn or ragged strips; shreds: clothes torn to ribbons.
b. reins for driving.
7. a long, thin flexible band of metal, as for a spring, a band saw, or a tapeline.
8. Also, ribband. Also called ledger, ledger board, ribbon strip. Carpentry. a thin horizontal piece let into studding to support the ends of joists.
9. Architecture. came 2 .
10. Also, ribband. Nautical. a distinctive narrow band or stripe painted along the exterior of a hull.
11. Shipbuilding. ribband 1 (def. 1).
–verb (used with object)
12. to adorn with ribbon.
13. to mark with something suggesting ribbon.
14. to separate into ribbonlike strips.
–verb (used without object)
15. to form in ribbonlike strips.
Also, riband (for defs. 8, 10).

Origin:
1520–30; var. of ME riban(d) < OF, var. of r (e)uban, perh. < Gmc. See band 2

Related forms:
rib⋅bon⋅like, rib⋅bon⋅y, adjective
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ledg·er   (lěj'ər)   
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.

  2. A slab of stone laid flat over a grave.

  3. 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.]
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).

ribbon 
1377, ribane, from O.Fr. riban "a ribbon," var. of ruban (13c.), of unknown origin, possibly from a Gmc. compound whose second element is related to band. Modern spelling is from c.1545. Custom of colored ribbon loops worn on lapels to declare support for some oppressed or suffering group began in 1991 with AIDS red ribbons.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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