ledger

Meanings

Plural: ledgers

Noun

a record in which commercial accounts are recorded
an accounting journal as a physical object
A book for keeping notes; a record book, a register.
A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.
A book or other scheme for keeping accounting records.
A distributed ledger, a public financial transaction database, typically using a blockchain.
A collection of accounting entries consisting of credits and debits.
A large, flat stone, especially one laid over a tomb.
A board attached to a wall to provide support for attaching other structural elements (such as deck joists or roof rafters) to a building.
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”).

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.

Origin / 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 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.

Synonyms

account book, book, book of account, daybook, leger, ligger

Scrabble Score: 8

ledger is a valid Scrabble (US) TWL word
ledger is a valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
ledger is a valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary

Words With Friends Score: 10

ledger is a valid Words With Friends word