Definition of "leger" in Englisch

adjective

1. (obsolete) Light; slender, slim; trivial.

adjective

1. Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.

   • a leger ambassador

noun

1. An ambassador or minister resident at a court or seat of government; a leiger or lieger.

2. (obsolete) Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.

3. (obsolete) Alternative form of ledger (“book for keeping notes, especially one for keeping accounting records”).

verb

1. (ambitransitive, British, fishing) Alternative form of ledger (“to use (a certain type of bait) in bottom fishing; to engage in bottom fishing”).