† ˈboundage Obs.
[f. bound n.1 and v.1 + -age.]
a. The action of marking out the bounds or limits. b. The bounds taken as a whole; the compass, extent.
| 1598 J. Manwood Lawes Forest xx. §2 (1615) 147 The boundage of the Forest was then so great..that it was almost impossible for any man..to liue within the daunger thereof. 1610 W. Folkingham Art of Surv. ii. ii. 49 Boundage is the compassing and describing of Plots with their buttalls, metes, bounds and Coastage. |