noun

1. a large, flat stone placed over a tomb
2. 1. a large, horizontal timber in a scaffold
   2. ledger board (sense )

3. Etymology: < ME sense “large volume kept in one place in church”

   Bookkeeping the book of final entry, used, in a double-entry system, for recording all debits and credits, as by transfer from a journal, according to the accounts to which they belong

Etymology: ME legger, prob. < ME leggen or liggen after MDu ligger: see lay, lie