Usually means: Boundaries or limits of land.
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  1. metes: Merriam-Webster
  2. metes: Collins English Dictionary
  3. metes: Vocabulary.com
  4. Metes, metes: Wordnik
  5. metes: Wiktionary
  6. metes: Dictionary.com
  7. Metes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. metes: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. metes: Legal dictionary

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  1. metes: Genealogy Glossary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (mete)

verb:  (transitive, usually with “out”) To dispense, measure in order to dispense, allot (especially punishment, reward etc.).
noun:  A boundary or other limit; a boundary-marker; mere.
adjective:  Obsolete spelling of meet (“suitable, fitting”). [(archaic) Suitable; right; proper.]
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