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Leger
Definitions
- 1 Light; slender, slim; trivial. obsolete
- 2 Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.
"a leger ambassador"
- 1 A surname.
- 1 An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government; a leiger or lieger.
"Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome"
- 2 a record in which commercial accounts are recorded wordnet
- 3 Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place. obsolete
- 4 Alternative form of ledger (“book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records”). alt-of, alternative, obsolete
"The Leger exhibits at one view the accounts with an individual, as it contains on the Dr. [debt] side whatever he has received, and on the Cr. [credit] side whatever he has paid. […] Let each account be posted from the Day Book in its proper place in the Leger. If a mistake be made, let it be corrected by an account in the Day Book, clearly stating the correction, and then let this account be posted in its proper place in the Leger, that no blot or erasure may disfigure its pages."
- 1 Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”). British, alt-of, alternative, ambitransitive
"Night-lines are made of water-cord, with the hooks about half-a-yard apart, baited with worms, loach, gudgeons, &c.; a brick is fastened to each end of the line to sink it, or a peg at one end and a brick at the other, and laid obliquely across the stream. They are also often taken when Legering for Barbel, […]"
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French legier, from Old French legier, apparently from Late Latin *leviārium, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.
A variant of ledger.
A variant of ledger.
A variant of ledger.
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