ˈland-surˌveyor
† 1. = landing-surveyor (see landing vbl. n. 8).
| 1755 Chamberlayne State Gt. Brit. ii. iii. 58 Port of Leith..William Towrie..Land-Surveyor. 1776 Addit. to Pope I. 2 note, When George I. made him [Rowe] one of the land surveyors of the port of London. |
2. One whose professional occupation is to measure land, draw up plans of estates, and the like.
| 1792 B. Marston in N.E. Hist. & Gen. Register (1873) XXVII. 399, I am engaged to go out with a large Company who are going to make a Settlement on the Iland Bulam..as their Land Surveyor General. a 1815 G. Rose Diaries (1860) II. 443 Mr. Wakefield, the land-surveyor, was at Cuffnells. 1853 Herschel Pop. Lect. Sci. ii. vii. (1873) 54 The triangle in question is always what a land surveyor would call a favourable one for calculation. |