mereing means an administrative or property boundary on a map. It carries an Arena rating of 1344, earned across 3 head-to-head judged battles.
Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, mereing ranks #1,725 of 17,149 for Most Exacting Words, #2,024 of 17,132 for Most Betrayed by Its Sound, #3,726 of 17,142 for Most Ingenious Words, #3,735 of 17,151 for The Improbable.
Why “mereing” is a great word
A legal or administrative boundary line as recorded on a map, or the process of deciding its exact position. From Middle English, from Old English mǣre ("boundary, limit"), from Proto-Germanic *mēriją ("boundary"), from Proto-Indo-European *mey- ("to fence"), first attested in 1565. Unlike a "border," which broadly separates realms or nations, or "demarcation," which is the act of setting a line, a mereing is both the fence itself and the quiet, often contentious, ritual of its placement. It is the faint, inked line on a parish map that divides one man's meadow from another's; the argument over a hedgerow's true edge after a century of growth; the settling of a dispute with a buried stone. It speaks to the human compulsion to define possession, knowing all the while that the land remembers no such lines.
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”).
noun
- An administrative or property boundary on a map.e.g.“Mereings on O.S. maps show to which field or enclosure the boundary fence […] belongs […]” — 1934, Ordnance Survey, Notes on CB, Parish and other Boundaries:
- The process of deciding upon the boundary's position.
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