Obs. [f. BOUND sb.1 and v.1 + -AGE.]
a. The action of marking out the bounds or limits. b. The bounds taken as a whole; the compass, extent.
1598. Manwood, Lawes Forest, xx. § 2 (1615), 147. The boundage of the Forest was then so great … that it was almost impossible for any man … to liue within the daunger thereof.
1610. Folkingham, Art of Surv., II. ii. 49. Boundage is the compassing and describing of Plots with their buttalls, metes, bounds and Coastage.
