ledger

Meanings

1. A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.
2. A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.
3. A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
4. A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
5. A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
6. A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.
7. Ellipsis of ledger bait (“fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a pond, stream, etc.”) or ledger line (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).

1. To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger.
2. To use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing.
3. To engage in bottom fishing.

1. A surname.

Etymology

From Middle English liggere, ligger, leger (“large breviary; beam, plank; dweller, inhabitant”), from liggen, leggen, variants of līen (“to lie down; to bow, kneel, prostrate; to die; to be located (somewhere); to remain in place, stay”), from Old English liċġan (“to lie down; to be situated”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie down”). The word is cognate with Saterland Frisian Lägger (“floor board, joist, plank”), West Frisian lêger (“beam, plank”), Dutch legger (“daybook; layer”) (from leggen (“to lay”), liggen (“to lie down”)), and is related to English ledge, lie (“to be prostrate”). The verb is derived from the noun.

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