ledger

Meanings

Noun

• A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.
• A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.
• A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
• A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
• A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.
• or ledger line (“fishing line used with ledger bait for bottom fishing; ligger”).

Verb

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

Related

Narrower meaning words

• distributed ledger
• nominal ledger
• sales ledger

Origin

• From Middle English lygger, ligger, leger, from leggen, liggen, leyen, variants of līen, from Old English liċġan ("to lie down; to be situated"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- ("to lie down"). The word is cognate with Dutch legger ("daybook; layer") (from leggen, liggen), and is related to English ledge, lie.
• The verb is derived from the noun.