"ledgment" meaning in English

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        "A stringcourse or horizontal suit of mouldings, such as the base mouldings of a building."
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        "(architecture) A stringcourse or horizontal suit of mouldings, such as the base mouldings of a building."
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        "The development of the surface of a body on a plane, so that the dimensions of the different sides may be easily ascertained."
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