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mereing

mereing

See also: mering

English

Noun

mereing ‎(plural mereings)

  1. (cartography) An administrative or property boundary on a map; the process of deciding upon the boundary's position.
    • 1934, Notes on CB, Parish and other Boundaries, Ordnance Survey:
      Mereings on O.S. maps show to which field or enclosure the boundary fence […] belongs […].

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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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