English Dictionary

perambulation

noun

(rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around. / (law) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.

I enjoy going for a perambulation in the park every morning.

意味（1）

(rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.

If any Man for that reaſon has an Inclination to divert himſelf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ſuperviſe almoſt all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whimſical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am reſolv’d to purſue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Buſineſs.

意味（2）

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

Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich.

意味（3）

The district thus inspected.