ledgeman

Questions about ledgeman

What does ledgeman mean?

ledgeman means "a quarry worker who splits off blocks of stone".

How many syllables are in ledgeman?

ledgeman has 3 syllables and divides as led-ge-man under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for ledgeman?

Close synonyms include breaker. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ledgeman a common word?

ledgeman is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.