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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.

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Etymology of 'Ledger'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Ledger" Quotes from Famous Books

... and left of the Citizen-President, four clerks were busy making entries in that ponderous ledger, that amazing record of the foulest crimes the world has ever known, the ...

— I Will Repay • Baroness Emmuska Orczy

... facilitate that search for the needle in the haystack—you understand? Disguises of various kinds—a suit of clothes lined with chamois-leather bags for gold-smugglin'—a good deal of the raw stuff itself, scattered all over the shop by the blow-up—and in a rusty cashbox a diary or private ledger, posted up in a clumsy kind of thieves' cipher, impossible to make out, but with the name written on it of the identical man my wife suspected and the Chief believed to be the murderer of Miss Mildare's adopted mother! And that's what you may call the Clue Direct, ...

— The Dop Doctor • Clotilde Inez Mary Graves

... Dempster^1 merits it; A garter gie to Willie Pitt; Gie wealth to some be-ledger'd cit, In cent. per cent.; But give me real, sterling wit, And ...

— Poems And Songs Of Robert Burns • Robert Burns

... that your ledger has worthless accounts, denotes bad management and losses; but if the accounts are good, then your business will ...

— 10,000 Dreams Interpreted • Gustavus Hindman Miller

... Schaunard with a little laugh, "this is a pleasant surprise. I had entered it amidst my bad debts. Come in, monsieur, come into my office, it is cooler there, and we can talk. The gun, ah, yes. I had entered that transaction in Ledger D. Come in, come in. There, take that armchair, I keep it for visitors. Well, and how did the ...

— The Pools of Silence • H. de Vere Stacpoole

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