LEDGERED

Verb

ledgered

simple past tense and past participle of ledger

Anagrams

• Eldredge

Source: Wiktionary


LEDGER

Ledg"er, n. Etym: [Akin to D. legger layer, daybook (fr. leggen to lay, liggen to lie), E. ledge, lie. See Lie to be prostrate.]

1. 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.]

2. (Arch.) (a) A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb. Oxf. Gloss. (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. Walton. J. H. Walsh.

– Ledger line. See Leger line, under 3d Leger, a.

– Ledger wall (Mining), the wall under a vein; the foot wall. Raymond.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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