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mereing

The English word “mereing” has 2 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. An administrative or property boundary on a map.
  2. The process of deciding upon the boundary's position.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Old English mǣre (“boundary, limit”), from Proto-Germanic *mēriją (“boundary”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- (“to fence”). Cognate with Dutch meer (“a limit, boundary”), Icelandic mærr (“borderland”), Swedish landamäre (“border, borderline, boundary”).

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