Definition of "perambulation" in English

noun

1. (rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.

2. (law) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.

   • 1902, Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich.
   • 1929, Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society The earliest known reference to the stone is that in the perambulation of the parish of Puddletown recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory.

3. The district thus inspected.