1. One whose occupation is land-measuring.
1632. MS. Acc. St. John’s Hosp., Canterb., Layd out on our selues and the landmeasurer when we went to … laye out our land.
1828. Miss Mitford, Village, Ser. III. 232. A staid, thick, sober, silent, middle-aged personage, who united the offices of schoolmaster and land-measurer.
2. [trans. mod.L. geometra.] A geometer moth.
188[?]. Cassell’s Nat. Hist., VI. 66. The Geometræ (or Land Measurers).
