noun. The act of perambulating, or of passing or wandering through or over.

noun. A traveling survey or inspection; a survey.

noun. A district within which a person has the right of inspection; jurisdiction.

noun. A method used in early Scotch and English history, and thence followed in the colonial period in the United States, of determining and maintaining boundaries and monuments or marks of boundaries between the possessions of neighboring tenants, and between neighboring parishes, and thus to some extent of deciding disputed tenancies and rights of possession, and questions of taxation.

noun. The act of perambulating; traversing.

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

noun. A district within which one is authorized to make a tour of inspection.

noun. A survey, a tour; a walking around.

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

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

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

"But we shall not omit an account of these places in our perambulation, which is guided by sense-limits rather than by arbitrary lines."

perambulation of a parish  

walk  

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