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ligement

ligement 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 ligement

pluralligements

Questions about ligement

What is ligement the obsolete form of?
Ligement is the obsolete form of ledgment.

Words near ligement in the dictionary

  1. Ligaya
  2. ligeance
  3. ligeances
  4. liged
  5. Ligeian
  6. ligement
  7. ligements
  8. liger
  9. ligers
  10. Liggan
  11. ligged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ligement (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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