ledgered

Verb

ledger (third-person singular simple present ledgers, present participle ledgering, simple past and past participle ledgered)

1. (transitive) To record (something) in, or as if in, a ledger.
   • Our tears are bottled, to signify that our griefs are carefully measured; and they are booked, to teach us that they are numbered.—Psal[ms] lvi. 8. Our tears being bottled, and ledgered, will signify that our afflictions are not the effects of change, but the registered dispensations of heaven. Ay...[1862?], S[amuel] Cozens, “Dedication”, in A Christmas Box, or The Great Festival; […], London: Printed for the author by T. Matthews, […], →OCLC, page v
2. (transitive) To use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing.
   • 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.1997, Paul Gustafson, “Rigs”, in How to Catch Bigger Pike from Rivers, Lochs and Lakes, London: Collins Willow, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN; republished as How to Catch Big Pike: All the Insight...
3. (intransitive) To engage in bottom fishing.
   • In the fashion pursued by the fishermen who require to cast a long line on the Thames, for ledgering or spinning more particularly, the line is drawn off the reel and laid loosely in coils at the fisherman's feet, […]1872, Francis Francis, “Bottom-fishing—Continued”, in A Book on Angling: Being a Complete Treatise on the Art of Angling in Every Branch: […], 3rd revised and improved edition, London: Longmans...

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