Noun: mereing
| Singular | mereing |
| Plural | mereings |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
Nouns inflected like mereing
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
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”). See: Old English Nouns '
mǣre', Dutch Nouns '
meer'.