Mereing

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An administrative or property boundary on a map.

    "Mereings on O.S. maps show to which field or enclosure the boundary fence […] belongs […]"

  2. 2
    The process of deciding upon the boundary's position.

Example

More examples

"Mereings on O.S. maps show to which field or enclosure the boundary fence […] belongs […]"

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English mǣre (“boundary, limit”), from Proto-Germanic *mēriją (“boundary”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fence”). Cognate with Dutch meer (“a limit, boundary”), Icelandic mærr (“borderland”), Swedish landamäre (“border, borderline, boundary”).

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