ledgment
English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English legement; equivalent to ledge + -ment.
Noun edit
ledgment (plural ledgments)
- (architecture) A stringcourse or horizontal suit of mouldings, such as the base mouldings of a building.
- 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 edit
- “ledgment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.