metes and bounds
C2CEFR level
92/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister
A method of describing land by its boundary lines, natural features, and measured distances.
The old deed described the parcel by metes and bounds, starting at the oak and running thence to the brook.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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