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Ledg′er.


1. (Scaffolding.) A horizontal pole, parallel to the walls, lashed to the standards or vertical poles, and supporting the putlogs on which the boards of the bricklayers' scaffold rest.


2. (Masonry.) A large, flat cap-stone, over a tomb for instance.

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