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Leger vs Legger - What's the difference?

leger | legger |

As nouns the difference between leger and legger

is that leger is anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place while legger is short for a bootlegger.

As an adjective leger

is light; slender; slim; trivial.

As a verb leger

is {{cx|UK|angling|lang=en}} To engage in bottom fishing.

leger

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • (obsolete) light; slender; slim; trivial
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • Lying or remaining in a place; hence, resident.
    • leger ambassador

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Anything that lies in a place; that which, or one who, remains in a place.
  • A minister or ambassador resident at a court or seat of government; also lieger, leiger.
  • * Fuller
    • Sir Edward Carne, the queen's leger at Rome
  • A ledger.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To engage in bottom fishing.
    • (Webster 1913) ----

    legger

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • short for a bootlegger
    • "Oh, you mean the ex-legger the eldest girl picked up and went and married." - "The Big Sleep", by Raymond Chandler
  • (British, obsolete) A man employed by the owners of a canal to push boats through narrow canal tunnels. The legger would lie on his back on a piece of wood on the boat with his feet reaching to the tunnel wall, and walk it along. This could be done by the boat's crew, but the canals employed men specifically for the task because they could do it faster and prevent a tunnel becoming a bottleneck for traffic.
    • ---- ==Norwegian BokmÃ¥l==

    Verb

    (head)