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legement

legement is the obsolete form of ledgment.

Meaning of ledgment

Noun

ledgment (plural ledgments)

  1. A stringcourse or horizontal suit of mouldings, such as the base mouldings of a building.
  2. The development of the surface of a body on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained.
    • HIP - ROOFS IN LEDGMENT1831, Peter Nicholson, Nicholson's New Carpenter's Guide

Forms of legement

plurallegements

Questions about legement

What is legement the obsolete form of?
Legement is the obsolete form of ledgment.

Words near legement in the dictionary

  1. LegCo
  2. legcuff
  3. legcuffs
  4. lege
  5. leged
  6. legement
  7. legements
  8. legend
  9. legend in one's own lifetime
  10. legend in one's own lunchtime
  11. legend in one's own mind

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Adapted from Wiktionary: legement (page history and authors); ledgment (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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