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Meaning of PERAMBULATION

WordNet Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
  1. [n]  a leisurely walk (usually in some public place)
  2. [n]  (British) a walk around a territory (a parish or manor or forrest etc.) in order to officially assert and record its boundaries
 
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 Synonyms: amble, promenade, ramble, saunter, stroll
 
 See Also: walk, walkabout

 

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary
 
 Definition: 
\Per*am`bu*la"tion\, n.
1. The act of perambulating; traversing. --Bacon.
2. An annual survey of boundaries, as of town, a parish, a
   forest, etc.
3. A district within which one is authorized to make a tour
   of inspection. ``The . . . bounds of his own
   perambulation.'' [Obs.] --Holyday.
 
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