ppl. a. [f. LEDGE sb. + -ED2.] Having or furnished with a ledge or ledges. Ledged door: see quot. 1842–59.

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1538.  Leland, Itin., I. 55. A Desk ledgid to set Bookes on.

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1727–41.  Chambers, Cycl., s.v. Printing, The body of the galley is ledged on three sides, to contain the slice.

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1842–59.  Gwilt, Archit., II. iii. § 5 (ed. 4), 2130. The most inferior sort of door used in building is the common ledged door, in which five or six or seven vertical boards are held together by usually three horizontal pieces called ledges to which the vertical ones are nailed.

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1880.  L. Wallace, Ben-Hur, 395. Ledged and broken walls and floor.

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1898.  Daily News, 15 March, 6/4. A vast tract of arid rock, crannied and ledged.

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