ledgementledgmentn.
/ˈlɛdʒmənt/ Architecture.
1. ‘A string-course or horizontal suit of mouldings, such as the base-mouldings, &c., of a building’ ( Gloss. Terms Archit. 1850). Also ledgement-table.
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1435 Contract Fotheringhay Ch. in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1673) III. ii. 163 When he hath..set his ground table~stones, and his ligements, and the wall thereto withyn and without.
1443 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 385 They..shal..do be made..iiije xvj fote of legement table... And they shal haue for euery ciiij fote of the same legement..xxxiijs. iiijd.
1849 J. Weale Rudim. Dict. Terms Archit. ii. 255/1 Ledgment.
2. (See quots.)
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1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 993 Ledgement, the development of a surface, or the surface of a body stretched out on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained.
1845 Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) 287 (note) When an apartment, a roof, or other complex structure, is delineated by having its plan and other component surfaces laid out or developed upon the paper, each in its proper relation to the plan as if the whole had been originally constructed by folding together and was now laid flat, the structure is said to be laid in ledgement.
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