[f. prec. + -SHIP.] The office of surveyor.
1485. [see SURVEYOR 1 e].
1539. Pollard, in Lett. Suppr. Monast. (Camden), 261. That he myght have the surveorshype of Glastonbery.
1591. Percivall, Sp. Dict., Alarifadgo, surueiorship of buildings.
1774. Foote, Cozeners, I. Wks. 1799, II. 150. The surveyorship of the woods there is vacant.
1850. Hawthorne, Scarlet L., Introd. (1852), 37. It was my chief trouble … that I was likely to grow gray and decrepit in the Surveyorship.
