mereing
nounEtymology 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”).
1
Cartography, Geography, Natural sciences An administrative or property boundary on a map.
- Mereings on O.S. maps show to which field or enclosure the boundary fence […] belongs […]1934, Ordnance Survey, Notes on CB, Parish and other Boundaries:
2
The process of deciding upon the boundary's position.
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