legement

English

Noun

legement (plural legements)

1. Obsolete form of ledgment.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “legement”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• ligement

Etymology

From legge (“bracing”) +‎ -ment.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɛdʒ(ə)mɛnt/, /ˈlidʒ(ə)mɛnt/

Noun

legement (plural ligements)

1. ledgement, stringcourse

Descendants

• English: ledgment, ledgement

References

• “leǧement (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-11-28.