Brewer's: Ledger

(A). A book “laid up” in the counting-house, and containing the debits and credits of the merchant or tradesman, arranged under “heads.” (Dutch legen, to lay, whence legger.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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