Ledger

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A large flat stone, ·esp. one laid over a tomb.

II. Ledger ·noun 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.

III. Ledger ·noun 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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