The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ledger \Ledg"er\(l[e^]j"[~e]r), n. [Akin to D. legger layer, daybook (fr. leggen to lay, liggen to lie), E. ledge, lie. See Lie to be prostrate.]
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.
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(Arch.)
A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
--Oxf. Gloss.-
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 blade,a stationary shearing blade in a machine for shearing the nap of cloth.
Ledger line. See Leger line, under 3d Leger, a.
Ledger wall (Mining), the wall under a vein; the foot wall.
--Raymond.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 The horizontal timber of a scaffolding; a ledger. 2 A nether millstone. Etymology 2
n. (context slang English) A freeloader or hanger-on, especially in the music industry. Etymology 3
n. A baited line attached to a float, for night fishing.
Usage examples of "ligger".
More have probably perished of curiosity than from liggers on land or sea-starks offshore.
Normally, such a juicy corpse would be cleaned down to a white skeleton, first by liggers or other large carnivores, then hickuls with heavy jaws for grinding bones, and finally by flyers known simply as vultures, though they looked like nothing in pictures from Old Earth.
Let us suffose that Kurt's nephew could reach the Glade without encountering a ligger, or a fack of khoovrahs.
Then came the grumbling rattle of a ligger, warning all others to stay out of its territory, and the keening of some strange bird.
Let us suffose that Kurt’s nephew could reach the Glade without encountering a ligger, or a fack of khoovrahs.