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noun

Ledger n.

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)

(Arch.)

(a)

A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.

(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.

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.

Leger n.

Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place. (Obs.)

A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government. (Written also lieger, leiger) (Obs.) "Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome."

A ledger.

adjective

Leger adj. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident; as, leger ambassador.

Leger adj. Light; slender; slim; trivial. (Obs. except in special phrases.)

Leger line (Mus.), a line added above or below the staff to extend its compass; called also added line.

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"Leger" Quotes from Famous Books

... bullet-holes cut in his clothes ran into St. Leger's troops, and out of breath told them to turn back or they would fill a drunkard's grave. Officers asked him about the numbers of the enemy, and he pointed to the leaves of the trees, shrieked, and ran for his life. He ran several days, and was barely able to keep ...

— Comic History of the United States • Bill Nye

... take some lessons of him, he asked me to sing something for him. Seeing the music of Duprato's "Il etait nuit deja," I proposed singing that, and he sat down at the pedal-less piano to accompany me. When I arrived at the phrase, "Un souffle d'air leger apportait jusqu'a nous l'odeur d'un oranger," he interrupted me. "Repeat that!" he cried. "Il faut qu'on sente le souffle d'air et l'odeur de l'oranger." I said to myself, "... no one could 'sentir un oranger' in this room; one could ...

— In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875. • L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone

... about the St. Leger? I need only say that my own Surefoot has brought me Alloway Heaume. Whilst in Russia I heard about plenty of Serfs, but they were not saints. Anybody who proposes to wear a Blue-green waistcoat ...

— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99, September 6, 1890 • Various

... idea beyond the realms of sport; he had never had a will of his own outside his stable. To shoot pigeons at Hurlington or Monaco, to keep half a dozen leather-platers, and attend every race from the Craven to the Leger, to hunt four days a week, when he was allowed to spend a winter in England, and to saunter and sleep away all the hours which could not be given to sport, comprised Sir George's idea of existence. He had never troubled himself to consider whether there might ...

— Phantom Fortune, A Novel • M. E. Braddon

... journey anything to do with the affair which Pere Leger, the farmer at the Moulineaux, came to Paris the other ...

— A Start in Life • Honore de Balzac

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