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ˈland-measurer
1. One whose occupation is land-measuring.
1632MS. Acc. St. John's Hosp., Canterb., Layd out on our selues and the landmeasurer when we went to..laye out our land. 1828Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. 232 A staid, thick, sober, silent, middle-aged personage, who united the offices of schoolmaster and land-measurer.
2. [tr. mod.L. geometra.] A geometer moth.
188.Cassell's Nat. Hist. VI. 66 The Geometræ (or Land Measurers). |