Meanings of big ledger in English

The mate came up on the bridge carrying the big ledger and the satchel.

Then I keep all the accounts, very complicated, as you would say if you saw my big ledger.

See here are my receipts and expenditure, she said, thrusting towards another big ledger which he waved away.

One Saturday while I was at work on the big ledger of the merchant I ran upon this item:

It is a big ledger some one has given him, in which he notes the important events of his life.

Morally, this registry in a big ledger has not even the virtue of inducing a wife to take a lover.

Then he proceeded to Mr. Foblin's desk, that gentleman turning over the pages of his big ledger preparatory to making an entry.

One night the kitchen door swung open and the old customers saw Dick bent over a big ledger, struggling with his cost accounting.

Well, then, here on this page are the country folk, and the numbers after their names are where their accounts are in the big ledger.

She was in the office, making entries in a couple of big ledgers opened on the desk.

LaGuardia has filled 45 big ledgers with news stories along, and e8ght with editorials.

When I got back to the motel, Georgia Langston was behind the desk in the lobby, making entries in two big ledgers.

"You will want the big ledger for facts?"

The business office is a very businesslike place, with files, typewriter, letter-copying press, big ledgers and all the modern appliances of an up-to-date business office.

"Now, you see, sir," he went on, opening the big ledger, "here are the separate accounts under each head.