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surveyorship|səˈveɪəʃɪp|
[f. prec. + -ship.]
The office of surveyor.
1485[see surveyor 1 e]. 1539Pollard in Lett. Suppr. Monast. (Camden) 261 That he myght have the surveorshype of Glastonbery. 1591Percivall Sp. Dict., Alarifadgo, surueiorship of buildings. 1774Foote Cozeners i. Wks. 1799 II. 150 The surveyorship of the woods there is vacant. 1850Hawthorne Scarlet L. Introd. (1852) 37 It was my chief trouble..that I was likely to grow gray and decrepit in the Surveyorship. |