Leger

Quick meaning: Leger is an adjective meaning Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.

Meaning

Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.

More Meanings

1. An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government; a leiger or lieger.
2. (ambitransitive, British, fishing) Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”).
3. (obsolete) Light; slender, slim; trivial.
4. (obsolete) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
5. (obsolete) Alternative form of ledger (“book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records”).

Example Sentences

a leger ambassador

Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome

The added advantage of legering a small bait rather than freelining one is that you can tighten up harder to the bait and so spot runs earlier.

Messrs. E. Frost and Tomkins, at Monkey Island, in two days, caught 80 lbs. weight of chub, dace, and roach with the fly and cheese paste, and in legering a trout of 2¼ lbs.

Word Forms

• legers
• legering
• legered

Synonyms for leger

Depending on context, synonyms include book, ledger.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include book, ledger, thin, slight, minor, mild.

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