Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to leger
Participle: legered
Gerund: legering
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | leger |
| you | leger |
| he;she;it | legers |
| we | leger |
| you | leger |
| they | leger |
Perfect
| I | have legered |
| you | have legered |
| he;she;it | has legered |
| we | have legered |
| you | have legered |
| they | have legered |
Past
| I | legered |
| you | legered |
| he;she;it | legered |
| we | legered |
| you | legered |
| they | legered |
Pluperfect
| I | had legered |
| you | had legered |
| he;she;it | had legered |
| we | had legered |
| you | had legered |
| they | had legered |
Future
| I | will leger |
| you | will leger |
| he;she;it | will leger |
| we | will leger |
| you | will leger |
| they | will leger |
Future Perfect
| I | will have legered |
| you | will have legered |
| he;she;it | will have legered |
| we | will have legered |
| you | will have legered |
| they | will have legered |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | leger |
| you | leger |
| he;she;it | leger |
| we | leger |
| you | leger |
| they | leger |
Perfect
| I | have legered |
| you | have legered |
| he;she;it | have legered |
| we | have legered |
| you | have legered |
| they | have legered |
Imperfect
| I | legered |
| you | legered |
| he;she;it | legered |
| we | legered |
| you | legered |
| they | legered |
Pluperfect
| I | had legered |
| you | had legered |
| he;she;it | had legered |
| we | had legered |
| you | had legered |
| they | had legered |
Conditional
Present
| I | would leger |
| you | would leger |
| he;she;it | would leger |
| we | would leger |
| you | would leger |
| they | would leger |
Perfect
| I | would have legered |
| you | would have legered |
| he;she;it | would have legered |
| we | would have legered |
| you | would have legered |
| they | would have legered |
Imperative
| you | leger |
| we | Let's leger |
| you | leger |
Verbs conjugated like 'leger'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'leger'
lager,
ledger,
leer,
lege,
lever,
anger,
auger,
beer,
begem,
beget,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
A variant of ledger.
Sample Sentences
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Night-lines are made of water-cord, with the hooks about half-a-yard apart, baited with worms, loach, gudgeons, &c.; a brick is fastened to each end of the line to sink it, or a peg at one end and a brick at the other, and laid obliquely across the stream. They are also often taken when Legering for Barbel, […] [1864, “Otter” [pseudonym; H. Jervis Alfred], “Eel, Lamprey and Lampern”, in The Modern Angler, Containing Instructions in the Art of Fly-fishing, Spining and Bottom-fishing, […], London: Alfred & Son, […], →OCLC, part I, page 68:]
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Messrs. E. Frost and Tomkins, at Monkey Island, in two days, caught 80 lbs. weight of chub, dace, and roach with the fly and cheese paste, and in legering a trout of 2¼ lbs. [1878, “The Fishing Season”, in Once a Week, volume VIII (Fourth Series), London: Published at the offices, 19, Tavistock Street, W.C., →OCLC, page 95, column 1:]
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The added advantage of legering a small bait rather than freelining one is that you can tighten up harder to the bait and so spot runs earlier. [1997, Paul Gustafson, “Rigs”, in How to Catch Bigger Pike from Rivers, Lochs and Lakes, London: Collins Willow, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN; republished as How to Catch Big Pike: All the Insight and Technique You Need to Catch Bigger Pike, whatever the Location, London: Robinson, an imprint of Little, Brown Book Group, 2016, →ISBN, page 160:]
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The flounder spends its life between the tideline and the 25 to 30 fathoms mark, but they are often caught several miles upstream in freshwater rivers by anglers legering worms or gentles. [1998, Martin James, “Flounder”, in Paul Morgan, editor, Saltwater Flyfishing: Britain and Northern Europe, Machynlleth, Powys: Coch-y-Bonddu Books, published 2006, →ISBN, page 156:]