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perambulation

noun

Etymology

From Middle English perambulacioun, from Anglo-Norman and Latin. By surface analysis, perambulate + -ation, or, by surface analysis, per- + ambulate + -ion.

  1. inherited from perambulacioun

Definitions

  1. A survey, a tour

    A survey, a tour; an instance of walking around.

  2. An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to…

    An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.

    • 1902, Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich.
    • It was sung from the top of the oldest house in the burgh every June at the Common riding, which served both for a perambulation of the bounds of the common pastures or Haughs and to commemorate the young men of Harwick[.]

  3. The district thus inspected.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for perambulation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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