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mereing

noun

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”).

  1. derived from *mey-✻
  2. inherited from *mēriją✻
  3. inherited from mǣre

Definitions

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

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA