English Explanatory Dictionary

mereing

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. An administrative or property boundary on a map.
  2. The process of deciding upon the boundary's position.

Word forms

mereing mereings

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”).

Related words

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