legger

English

Noun

legger (plural leggers)

1. (informal) A bootlegger.
   • Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep

     "Oh, you mean the ex-legger the eldest girl picked up and went and married."

2. (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.

Anagrams

• eggler

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Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch legger. Equivalent to leggen +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˈlɛ.ɣər/
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• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Hyphenation: leg‧ger
• (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɛɣər

Noun

legger m (plural leggers, diminutive leggertje n)

1. An animal that lays eggs, especially an egg-producing bird.
2. A ledger, register (book for keeping records and/or notes).
3. (textual criticism) A vorlage (edition of a text that is the immediate predecessor or one of the immediate predecessors of another edition).

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Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

legger m

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) indefinite plural of legg

Verb

legger

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) present active of legge

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• leggar

Noun

legger m

1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) indefinite plural of legg