mereing

English

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”).

Noun

mereing (plural mereings)

1. (cartography) An administrative or property boundary on a map.
   • 1934, Ordnance Survey, Notes on CB, Parish and other Boundaries:

     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.

Related terms

• mere

Anagrams

• germine, reeming, regimen