perambulation

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

PERAMBULA'TION,noun The act of passing or walking through or over. 1. A traveling survey or inspection. 2. A district within which a person has the right of inspection; jurisdiction. 3. Annual survey of the bounds of a parish in England, or of a township in America.
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