PERAMBULATION

amble, promenade, saunter, stroll, perambulation

(noun) a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)

perambulation

(noun) a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

perambulation (countable and uncountable, plural perambulations)

(rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.

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

The district thus inspected.

Synonyms

• (English legal ceremony) bannering

Anagrams

• preambulation

Source: Wiktionary


Per*am`bu*la"tion, n.

1. The act of perambulating; traversing. Bacon.

2. An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a forest, etc.

3. A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection. "The . . . bounds of his own perambulation." [Obs.] Holyday.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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