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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To walk through.
  2. v. To inspect (an area) on foot.
  3. v. To walk about; roam or stroll.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To walk through, about, or over.
  2. To survey while passing through; traverse and examine; survey the boundaries of: as, to perambulate a parish or its boundaries.
  3. To walk, or walk about.
  4. To be carried in a, perambulator.

Wiktionary

  1. v. intransitive To walk about, roam or stroll.
  2. v. transitive To inspect (an area) on foot.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing; specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.
  2. v. To walk about; to ramble; to stroll.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property)
  2. v. walk with no particular goal

Etymologies

  1. From Latin perambulō. (Wiktionary)
  2. Latin perambulāre, perambulāt- : per-, per- + ambulāre, to walk; see ambhi in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

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