ledgment

English

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Etymology

From Middle English legement; equivalent to ledge +‎ -ment.

Noun

ledgment (plural ledgments)

  1. (architecture) 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.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for ledgment in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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