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Definition of Perambulating

Perambulating
Perambulate Per*am"bu*late, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perambulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Perambulating.] [L. perambulatus, p. p. of perambulare to perambulate; per through + ambulare to walk. See Per-, and Amble.] To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.

Meaning of Perambulating from wikipedia

- Look up perambulation in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Perambulation noun; is the act of walking around, surveying land, or touring. In English law...
- prosecute a highwayman, for example, if they were in their county. Perambulating the county boundary as a civic ritual is only clearly do****ented from...
- Beating the bounds or perambulating the bounds is an ancient custom still observed in parts of England, Wales, and the New England region of the United...
- wooden carrying case. The British Workman reported in 1857 about a perambulating library operating in a circle of eight villages, in ****bria. A Victorian...
- The Flying Lizards were an experimental English new wave band, formed in 1976. They are best known for their eccentric cover version of Barrett Strong's...
- juries in the forest courts. In 1300 many (if not all) forests were perambulated and reduced greatly in their extent, in theory to their extent in the...
- The Warrington Perambulating Library has been described by historian Ian Orton as "one of the most revolutionary library advances of the nineteenth century"...
- Drayton House is a Grade I listed country house of many periods 1 mile (1.6 km) south-west of the village of Lowick, Northamptonshire, England. Described...
- king directed the Sheriff of Devon and twelve knights of the county to perambulate the Forest to record its exact bounds. This was because Richard had been...
- John Aubrey FRS (12 March 1626 – 7 June 1697) was an English antiquary, natural philosopher and writer. He was a pioneer archaeologist, who recorded (often...