Usually means: Land description using measurements, landmarks.
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General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. metes and bounds: Wiktionary
  2. metes and bounds: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  3. metes and bounds: Infoplease Dictionary
  4. metes and bounds: Dictionary.com
  5. Metes and bounds: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. metes and bounds: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. metes and bounds: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  4. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  5. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Metes and Bounds: Legal dictionary
  7. metes and bounds: Financial dictionary
  8. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  9. Metes and bounds: WashingtonPost.com: Business

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. METES AND BOUNDS, METES AND BOUNDS, METES AND BOUNDS: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words
  2. metes and bounds: Genealogy Glossary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (metes and bounds)

noun:  The limits of a piece of land as defined by reference to lines and/or points on the land.
noun:  (surveying) A description of a piece of land consisting of both measurements (metes) of the land and owners of land which is adjacent to (bounds) it.

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