ledgment

English

Alternative forms

• ledgement
• legement
• ligement

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.
   • 1831, Peter Nicholson, Nicholson's New Carpenter's Guide:

     HIP - ROOFS IN LEDGMENT

References

• “ledgment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.