† 1. = landing-surveyor (see LANDING vbl. sb. 8).
1755. Chamberlayne, State Gt. Brit., II. III. 58. Port of Leith … William Towrie … Land-Surveyor.
1776. Addit. to Pope, I. 2, note. When George I. made him [Rowe] one of the land surveyors of the port of London.
2. One whose professional occupation is to measure land, draw up plans of estates, and the like.
1792. B. Marston, in N. E. Hist. & Gen. Register (1873), XXVII. 399. I am engaged to go out with a large Company who are going to make a Settlement on the Iland Bulam … as their Land Surveyor General.
a. 1815. G. Rose, Diaries (1860), II. 443. Mr. Wakefield, the land-surveyor, was at Cuffnells.
1853. Herschel, Pop. Lect. Sci., II. vii. (1873), 54. The triangle in question is always what a land surveyor would call a favourable one for calculation.
