Perambulation

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  • n. A survey, a tour; a walking around.
  • n. An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of perambulating; traversing.
  • n. An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.
  • n. A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of perambulating, or of passing or wandering through or over.
  • n. A traveling survey or inspection; a survey.
  • n. A district within which a person has the right of inspection; jurisdiction.
  • n. A method used in early Scotch and English history, and thence followed in the colonial period in the United States, of determining and maintaining boundaries and monuments or marks of boundaries between the possessions of neighboring tenants, and between neighboring parishes, and thus to some extent of deciding disputed tenancies and rights of possession, and questions of taxation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries
  • n. a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
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