The process, art or profession of measuring, and making plans of, landed property.
1771. Breaks (title), A complete system of Land-Surveying.
1849. Chambers’ Inform., II. 623/1. Trigonometry … is of great importance … in land-surveying. Ibid., 624/1. A principle of measuring by triangles, which is common alike to land-surveying and the trigonometrical surveys of engineers.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, Land-surveying Chain-maker, a manufacturer of the chain-links used by surveyors.
