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mering, mearing, vbl. n.|ˈmɪərɪŋ|
Also mereing.
[f. mere v.2 + -ing1.]
†1. The action of the verb mere; fixing of boundaries. Obs.
1574in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 335 Foure Aldermen shalbe elected surveighours yearely..to determyne all mischaunces and variaunces of mearing betwixt thinhabitaunts. 1579–80North Plutarch, Numa (1595) 78 For bounding & mearing, to him that will keepe it iustly: is a bond that brideleth power & desire. c1600in Renaud Prestbury (Chetham Soc.) 44 The meeringe and devydynge of the Churchyarde.
2. concr. = mere n.2 1. (See also quot. 1975.) Also fig.
1616Boyle Diary (1886) I. 132, I had a mearing between Kynaltalloon and Condons Lands held by Mr Thomas ffitz John. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 123 These are within the districts of Franchimont, Malmendy and Stavelot, or thereabouts. I can not pretend to distinguish meerings. 1843Blacker in Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. IV. ii. 445 The necessity for drainage..; the advantage of straight mearings. 1873E. O'Curry Manners Anc. Irish III. 4 The same name [Dun]..would apply to any boundary or mearing formed of a wet trench between two raised banks or walls of earth. 1900Century Mag. Feb. 605 Billy starts up an' lifts the tether to lead the goat to the mearin' of the parishes. 1920E. Pound Umbra 113 At midnight mirk, In secrecies I nurse My served make In heart; nor try My melodies At other's door nor mearing. 1925W. B. Yeats Early Poems & Stories 449 Some world out of sight and misty, that has for its mearing the colours that are beyond all other colours. 1932Instructions to Field Revisers (Ordnance Survey) App. A. 46 When boundaries have been surveyed, the initials of mereings are shown in ink along the surveyed features. Ibid. 48 Mereings on O.S. maps show to which field or inclosure the boundary fence..belongs, whether or not the land on both sides is owned or occupied by one and the same person. 1975J. B. Harley O.S. Maps iii. 39 The term mereing has also been extended to apply to the written statement indicating the precise relationship of a boundary to the adjacent detail (for example, 4 ft rh = 4 ft from root of hedge)... Where space permits, mereings in this sense are placed parallel to the boundary, and when the type of mereing changes (as from the edge of a curb to the face of a wall) a special symbol..indicates the point of change.
3. attrib. as in mering-balk, mering-drain, mering-fence, mering-hedge, mering-stone, mering-wall.
1769French in A. Young Tour Irel. (1780) I. 370 He also made a deep mearing drain. 1846T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil 9 On this side is the meering or boundary-hedge of sallows between you and your next neighbour. 1865W. White E. Eng. II. 194 A strip of land a rod in width, called a..mereing balk. 1911J. Campbell (title) Mearing stones: leaves from my note-book on tramp in Donegal. 1928R. A. S. Macalister Archæol. of Ireland i. 26 A mearing-wall (as boundary-walls are called in Ireland). 1933Irish Press 10 Nov. 1/4 A huge earth bank which serves as a mearing fence between the lands. |