Ledger

1. 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.
1. A large flat stone, esp. one laid over a tomb.
2. 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.
Ledger bait ,
fishing bait attached to a floating line fastened to the bank of a stream, pond, etc.
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.