leger
/ˈlɛd͡ʒəɹ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.69 in modern English
6
Scrabble Score
5
Letters
2
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government.
noun
Alternative form of ledger (“book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records”).
Obsolete
verb
Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”).
British usage
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "a leger ambassador"
- "Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome"
- "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."
- "[T]his city of "merchants, whose counting-houses are their churches, whose money is their God, and whose legers, (defaced legers, of course, the delegate from Indiana will understand me,) whose legers are their bibles.""
- "The original charges, however, are made in what is called a day book, where they are written one after another, in the order in which the transactions occur. During the hours of leisure, these charges are copied into another book, […] the account of each man being placed under his name. This book is called the leger. The act of copying from the day book into the leger is called posting."
- "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.
Origin
- Source language: Old French
Word Breakdown
- Root: legier
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈlɛd͡ʒəɹ/
- British English: /ˈlɛd͡ʒə/
Usage
Inflected Forms
more leger (comparative)
most leger (superlative)
legers (plural)
legers (present, singular)
legering (participle, present)
legered (participle, past)
legered (past)