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==Norwegian Nynorsk== |
==Norwegian Nynorsk== |
Latest revision as of 14:19, 21 October 2024
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]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.
See also
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Dutch
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]Noun
[edit]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
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Akin to Italian leggero, from Latin levis. Compare also French léger.
Adjective
[edit]legger
- light (of weight)
Norwegian Bokmål
[edit]Noun
[edit]legger m (definite singular leggeren, indefinite plural leggerer, definite plural leggerene)
- person, machine or similar that places something
- layman
Derived terms
[edit]Noun
[edit]legger m
- indefinite plural of legg
Verb
[edit]legger
References
[edit]- “legger” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
Norwegian Nynorsk
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Alternative forms
[edit]Noun
[edit]legger m
- indefinite plural of legg
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Alternative forms
[edit]Verb
[edit]legger
- (nonstandard) present of leggja
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