Dictionary entry

Perambulation

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.” Holyday.