mereingn.

Brit.

/ˈmɪərɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈmɪ(ə)rɪŋ/

Forms: 1500s 1900s– mering, 1500s– mearing, 1600s meeringe, 1700s–1800s meering, 1800s– mereing; Scottish (chiefly northern) pre-1700 mearin, pre-1700 mering, pre-1700 meryne, pre-1700 1700s– mearing, 1700s merin, 1700s–1800s meering, 1800s– mearen (now rare), 1800s– miren (now rare); Irish English 1800s– mearing, 1800s– meerin, 1800s– merin, 1900s– marin, 1900s– mearin', 1900s– mearn.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mere v.², -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < mere v.² + -ing suffix¹.Apparently unattested in Middle English, although compare the following:c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4972 Nome him scupte þe king & hehte þene stan West-mering [c1300 Otho Westenering]; a muchel dæl londes þe þer lið abuten nom þe king to his hond & hæhte hit West-merelinge lond. The above quot. occurs in a passage on the naming of Westmorland; compare Old English Westmōringa land , lit. ‘the land of those living west of the (Yorkshire) moors’ (compare -ing suffix³). The form West-mering perhaps shows alteration of the second element of the Old English word after mere n.² (compare merestone n., and the following early forms of the place name Westmorland : Westmerland (1129–33), Westmerieland (1183), Westmeriland (1190), Westmereland (1237)), rather than an isolated early attestation of the present word. The following occurrence of mǣring in Old English in a Kentish charter has also been taken by some as an early attestation of this word, but the word division of the manuscript is misleading, and Haðemǣring , a place name based on a personal name H(e)aðumǣr (compare -ing suffix³), is a more likely reading:OE Bounds (Sawyer 546) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1893) III. 36 Of suð tune andlang broces to haðe mæringe ðonne on suð healfe of haðe mæringe to stoccum. The location apparently corresponds to a field whose name is variously recorded in later documents as Helmering (1526), Hellmerings (1620), and Hemmings (19th cent.). Of the forms found in 20th-cent. use, mereing seems to be the spelling favoured in surveying, while mearing is more common in Irish sources.

a. A boundary; = mere n.² 1. Also figurative. Now chiefly Irish English.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary

thresholdeOE

randeOE

markeOE

mereOE

limiting1391

march1402

confrontc1430

bourne1523

limity1523

mereing1565

mark-mere1582

ring1598

land-mere1603

limit1655

field boundary1812

landimere1825

section-line1827

wad1869

1565 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1886) IV. 587/1 Lie meringis de Ballecherich.

1616 R. Boyle Diary (1886) I. 132 I had a mearing between Kynaltalloon and Condons Lands held by M^r Thomas ffitz John.

1686 in W. Mackay & G. S. Laing Rec. Inverness (1924) II. 342 Have several years bygone encroatched upon the saids supplicants lands by tilling the mearings betwixt their lands.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 123 These are within the districts of Franchimont, Malmendy and Stavelot, or thereabouts. I can not pretend to distinguish meerings.

1809 M. Edgeworth Ennui iv, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 85 Another was racked, if I did not settle the mearing between him and Corny Corkran.

1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 445 The necessity for drainage..; the advantage of straight mearings.

1873 E. O'Curry Manners Anc. Irish III. 4 The same name [i.e. Dun]..would apply to any boundary or mearing formed of a wet trench between two raised banks or walls of earth.

1909 Lady Gregory Workhouse Ward in Seven Short Plays 141 It's a little temptation there was for my poor beasts to ask to cross the mering.

1929 D. Corkery Stormy Hills 54 The sleeper might lawfully take his rest his spirit had so indisputably established itself everywhere within the far-flung mearings.

1934 P. O'Donnell On Edge of Stream 28 Many a time since he had seen the mearn of a man's greatness, but nothing ever excited him like seeing that day a boundary to Master Donnelly's learning.

b. Surveying. A written note on a map giving information about a boundary.

ΚΠ

1932 Instructions to Field Revisers (Ordnance Survey) App. A. 48 Mereings on O.S. maps show to which field or inclosure the boundary fence..belongs, whether or not the land on both sides is owned or occupied by one and the same person.

1975 J. B. Harley Ordnance Survey Maps iii. 39 The term mereing has also been extended to apply to the written statement indicating the precise relationship of a boundary to the adjacent detail (for example, 4 ft rh = 4 ft from root of hedge)... Where space permits, mereings in this sense are placed parallel to the boundary, and when the type of mereing changes (as from the edge of a curb to the face of a wall) a special symbol..indicates the point of change.

†2. The action of mere v.²; the fixing of boundaries. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > determination of boundary

meting1543

mereing1574

boundage1610

abuttallingc1628

limitation1677

demarcation1728

1574 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 335 Foure Aldermen shalbe elected surveighours yearely..to determyne all mischaunces and variaunces of mearing betwixt thinhabitaunts.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 78 For bounding & mearing, to him that will keepe it iustely: is a bond that brideleth power & desire.

c1600 in F. Renaud Contrib. Hist. Prestbury (1876) 44 The meeringe and devydynge of the Churchyarde.

Compounds

attributive. Designating features serving as or marking boundaries, as mereing-drain, mereing-fence, mereing-hedge, etc.

ΚΠ

1769 R. French Let. 24 Jan. in A. Young Tour Ireland (1780) i. 219 He also made a deep mearing drain.

1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil 9 On this side is the meering or boundary-hedge of sallows between you and your next neighbour.

1865 W. White Eastern Eng. II. 194 A strip of land a rod in width, called a..mereing balk.

1911 J. Campbell (title) Mearing stones: leaves from my note-book on tramp in Donegal.

1928 R. A. S. Macalister Archæol. of Ireland i. 26 A mearing-wall (as boundary-walls are called in Ireland).

1933 Irish Press 10 Nov. 1/4 A huge earth bank which serves as a mearing fence between the lands.

1955 J. R. R. Tolkien Return of King (Map at end) Mering Stream.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mereing
释义	mereingn. Brit. /ˈmɪərɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈmɪ(ə)rɪŋ/ Forms: 1500s 1900s– mering, 1500s– mearing, 1600s meeringe, 1700s–1800s meering, 1800s– mereing; Scottish (chiefly northern) pre-1700 mearin, pre-1700 mering, pre-1700 meryne, pre-1700 1700s– mearing, 1700s merin, 1700s–1800s meering, 1800s– mearen (now rare), 1800s– miren (now rare); Irish English 1800s– mearing, 1800s– meerin, 1800s– merin, 1900s– marin, 1900s– mearin', 1900s– mearn. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mere v.², -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < mere v.² + -ing suffix¹.Apparently unattested in Middle English, although compare the following:c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) 4972 Nome him scupte þe king & hehte þene stan West-mering [c1300 Otho Westenering]; a muchel dæl londes þe þer lið abuten nom þe king to his hond & hæhte hit West-merelinge lond. The above quot. occurs in a passage on the naming of Westmorland; compare Old English Westmōringa land , lit. ‘the land of those living west of the (Yorkshire) moors’ (compare -ing suffix³). The form West-mering perhaps shows alteration of the second element of the Old English word after mere n.² (compare merestone n., and the following early forms of the place name Westmorland : Westmerland (1129–33), Westmerieland (1183), Westmeriland (1190), Westmereland (1237)), rather than an isolated early attestation of the present word. The following occurrence of mǣring in Old English in a Kentish charter has also been taken by some as an early attestation of this word, but the word division of the manuscript is misleading, and Haðemǣring , a place name based on a personal name H(e)aðumǣr (compare -ing suffix³), is a more likely reading:OE Bounds (Sawyer 546) in W. de G. Birch Cartularium Saxonicum (1893) III. 36 Of suð tune andlang broces to haðe mæringe ðonne on suð healfe of haðe mæringe to stoccum. The location apparently corresponds to a field whose name is variously recorded in later documents as Helmering (1526), Hellmerings (1620), and Hemmings (19th cent.). Of the forms found in 20th-cent. use, mereing seems to be the spelling favoured in surveying, while mearing is more common in Irish sources. 1. a. A boundary; = mere n.² 1. Also figurative. Now chiefly Irish English. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary thresholdeOE randeOE markeOE mereOE limiting1391 march1402 confrontc1430 bourne1523 limity1523 mereing1565 mark-mere1582 ring1598 land-mere1603 limit1655 field boundary1812 landimere1825 section-line1827 wad1869 1565 in J. M. Thomson Registrum Magni Sigilli Scotorum (1886) IV. 587/1 Lie meringis de Ballecherich. 1616 R. Boyle Diary (1886) I. 132 I had a mearing between Kynaltalloon and Condons Lands held by M^r Thomas ffitz John. 1686 in W. Mackay & G. S. Laing Rec. Inverness (1924) II. 342 Have several years bygone encroatched upon the saids supplicants lands by tilling the mearings betwixt their lands. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 123 These are within the districts of Franchimont, Malmendy and Stavelot, or thereabouts. I can not pretend to distinguish meerings. 1809 M. Edgeworth Ennui iv, in Tales Fashionable Life I. 85 Another was racked, if I did not settle the mearing between him and Corny Corkran. 1843 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 4 ii. 445 The necessity for drainage..; the advantage of straight mearings. 1873 E. O'Curry Manners Anc. Irish III. 4 The same name [i.e. Dun]..would apply to any boundary or mearing formed of a wet trench between two raised banks or walls of earth. 1909 Lady Gregory Workhouse Ward in Seven Short Plays 141 It's a little temptation there was for my poor beasts to ask to cross the mering. 1929 D. Corkery Stormy Hills 54 The sleeper might lawfully take his rest his spirit had so indisputably established itself everywhere within the far-flung mearings. 1934 P. O'Donnell On Edge of Stream 28 Many a time since he had seen the mearn of a man's greatness, but nothing ever excited him like seeing that day a boundary to Master Donnelly's learning. b. Surveying. A written note on a map giving information about a boundary. ΚΠ 1932 Instructions to Field Revisers (Ordnance Survey) App. A. 48 Mereings on O.S. maps show to which field or inclosure the boundary fence..belongs, whether or not the land on both sides is owned or occupied by one and the same person. 1975 J. B. Harley Ordnance Survey Maps iii. 39 The term mereing has also been extended to apply to the written statement indicating the precise relationship of a boundary to the adjacent detail (for example, 4 ft rh = 4 ft from root of hedge)... Where space permits, mereings in this sense are placed parallel to the boundary, and when the type of mereing changes (as from the edge of a curb to the face of a wall) a special symbol..indicates the point of change. †2. The action of mere v.²; the fixing of boundaries. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > edge, border, or margin > boundary > [noun] > land-boundary > determination of boundary meting1543 mereing1574 boundage1610 abuttallingc1628 limitation1677 demarcation1728 1574 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 335 Foure Aldermen shalbe elected surveighours yearely..to determyne all mischaunces and variaunces of mearing betwixt thinhabitaunts. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 78 For bounding & mearing, to him that will keepe it iustely: is a bond that brideleth power & desire. c1600 in F. Renaud Contrib. Hist. Prestbury (1876) 44 The meeringe and devydynge of the Churchyarde. Compounds attributive. Designating features serving as or marking boundaries, as mereing-drain, mereing-fence, mereing-hedge, etc. ΚΠ 1769 R. French Let. 24 Jan. in A. Young Tour Ireland (1780) i. 219 He also made a deep mearing drain. 1846 T. Keightley Notes Bucolics & Georgics of Virgil 9 On this side is the meering or boundary-hedge of sallows between you and your next neighbour. 1865 W. White Eastern Eng. II. 194 A strip of land a rod in width, called a..mereing balk. 1911 J. Campbell (title) Mearing stones: leaves from my note-book on tramp in Donegal. 1928 R. A. S. Macalister Archæol. of Ireland i. 26 A mearing-wall (as boundary-walls are called in Ireland). 1933 Irish Press 10 Nov. 1/4 A huge earth bank which serves as a mearing fence between the lands. 1955 J. R. R. Tolkien Return of King (Map at end) Mering Stream. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1565
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