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English
Noun
legger (plural leggers)
- (informal) A bootlegger.
- 1939, Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep:
- Oh, you mean the ex-legger the eldest girl picked up and went and married.
- (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.
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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch legger. Equivalent to leggen + -er. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. Some of the senses actually arise from liggen, per Etymologiebank
Pronunciation
Noun
legger m (plural leggers, diminutive leggertje n)
- An animal that lays eggs, especially an egg-producing bird.
- A ledger, register (book for keeping records and/or notes).
- (textual criticism) A vorlage (edition of a text that is the immediate predecessor or one of the immediate predecessors of another edition).
Lombard
Etymology
Akin to Italian leggero, from Latin levis. Compare also French léger.
Adjective
legger
- light (of weight)
Norwegian Bokmål
Noun
legger m
- indefinite plural of legg
Verb
legger
Norwegian Nynorsk
Etymology 1
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Alternative forms
Noun
legger m
- indefinite plural of legg
Etymology 2
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Alternative forms
Verb
legger
- (nonstandard) present of leggja
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