Crossword clues for perambulate
perambulate
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Perambulate \Per*am"bu*late\, v. i. To walk about; to ramble; to stroll; as, he perambulated in the park.
Perambulate \Per*am"bu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Perambulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Perambulating.] [L. perambulatus, p. p. of perambulare to perambulate; per through + ambulare to walk. See Per-, and Amble.] 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To walk about, roam or stroll. 2 (context transitive English) To inspect (an area) on foot.
WordNet
v. make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property); "Selectmen are required by law to perambulate the bounds every five years"
walk with no particular goal; "we were walking around in the garden"; "after breakfast, she walked about in the park" [syn: walk about, walk around]
Usage examples of "perambulate".
Even in a crowd twice as dense as that now perambulating the Croisette it would have been difficult to miss her.
Sure, they were draped with so many different lands of apotropaic amulets that they looked like perambulating Christmas trees.
The greater part of the travellers were aware of this interruption, and, leaving the train, they began to engage such vehicles as the village could provide four-wheeled palkigharis, waggons drawn by zebus, carriages that looked like perambulating pagodas, palanquins, ponies, and what not.
There is only one watchman to a district, which he perambulates all night with a lantern in one hand and a staff in the other.
In fact, for two years hand-running, almost daily, and in spite of the three-legged shepherd's fang-baring snarls, Bernabe" had been ticketing Onofre's perambulating junk heap.
On land, meridional, a bispherical moon, revealed in imperfect varying phases of lunation through the posterior interstice of the imperfectly occluded skirt of a carnose negligent perambulating female, a pillar of the cloud by day.
Looking down at the sand he put out a foot to impede the progress of a perambulating hermit crab.
No Sackett had ever shot another, and I wasn't itching to be the first We'd never had much truck with those Clinch Mountain Sacketts, for they were a rough lot, having to do with moonshining and perambulating up and down the Wilderness Trail or the Natchez Trace for no good purpose.
A third form gushed forth as the others had before, it perambulated forward and stood close, closer than the first two, its chunky nose nearly rubbing Clem's own.
Jack sipped his second drink and stared fixedly at Jolynn's heart-shaped ass as it perambulated about the other end of the lounge.
He then perambulates it back to his mother’s place by means of a hand trolley.
It is a dynamic field made of thousands of disparate elements, held in a loose sack of skin that perambulates the universe at large.
A wild laugh, almost a howl, disturbed the talk of the most adjacent of the perambulating relations.
She proceeded, gazing down the while at the perambulating George, to give it thought.
For the young monkeys, it was as if a wondrous perambulating, talking jungle gym had wandered into their midst, exclusively for their enjoyment.