leger

Meanings

1. Light; slender, slim; trivial.

1. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.

1. An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government; a leiger or lieger.
2. Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
3. Alternative form of ledger (“book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records”).

1. Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”).

1. A surname.

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French legier, from Old French legier, apparently from Late Latin *leviārium, from levis (“light in weight”). See levity.