land-measurern.
/ˈlan(d)ˌmɛʒ(ə)rə/, U.S. /ˈlæn(d)ˌmɛʒ(ə)rər/ 1. One whose occupation is land-measuring.
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the world > the earth > earth sciences > geography > map-making > surveying > [noun] > surveyor
geometrian?c1400
geometrician?1537
surveyor1551
land-meter1582
land-measurer1632
measurer1636
geodesian1650
geometrist1772
geometer1773
arpenteur1789
land-surveyor1792
fieldman1838
1632 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/5) Layd out on our selues and the landmeasurer when we went to..laye out our land.
1828 M. R. Mitford Our Village III. 232 A staid, thick, sober, silent, middle-aged personage, who united the offices of schoolmaster and land-measurer.
2. [translating modern Latin geometra.] A geometer moth.
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188. Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 66 The Geometræ (or Land Measurers).
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