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/sərvˈeɪər/ /sˈərvˌeɪər/ Listen

noun

Surveyor n.

One placed to superintend others; an overseer; an inspector. "Were 't not madness then, To make the fox surveyor of the fold?"

One who views and examines for the purpose of ascertaining the condition, quantity, or quality of anything; as, a surveyor of highways, ordnance, etc.

One who surveys or measures land; one who practices the art of surveying.

(Customs)

(a)

An officer who ascertains the contents of casks, and the quantity of liquors subject to duty; a gauger.

(b)

In the United States, an officer whose duties include the various measures to be taken for ascertaining the quantity, condition, and value of merchandise brought into a port.

Surveyor general.

(a)

A principal surveyor; as, the surveyor general of the king's manors, or of woods and parks. (Eng.)

(b)

An officer having charge of the survey of the public lands of a land district. (U.S.)

Surveyor's compass. See Circumferentor.

Surveyor's level. See under Level.

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Etymology of 'Surveyor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Surveyor" Quotes from Famous Books

... on Derby Wharf when Rhoda and her companion made their way past the warehouses built at intervals along the wharf to the place where the Nautilus would be warped in. The wharfinger saluted them, William Ammidon joined his wife, and beyond she could see James Saltonstone conversing with the Surveyor of the Port. ...

— Java Head • Joseph Hergesheimer

... savant and gentle dreamer of these volumes was also the energetic secretary of a railway company? Many men of the highest scientific eminence have begun in prosaic lines of life. Herbert Spencer was a railway engineer. Wallace was a land surveyor. But that a man with so pronounced a scientific brain as Laing should continue all his life to devote his time to dull routine work, remaining in harness until extreme old age, with his soul still open to every fresh idea and his brain acquiring new concretions of knowledge, ...

— Through the Magic Door • Arthur Conan Doyle

... been surveyed, but what opinion had been formed about her was not known for some time. At length the captain, who had gone on shore, returned, and, mustering the ship's company, informed them that, according to the surveyor's report, it would take some months to put her in thorough repair, and that in the meantime he had been appointed to the command of the store-ship Bombay Castle, of sixty-four guns, bound for the Mediterranean, and he should take his officers and ...

— From Powder Monkey to Admiral - A Story of Naval Adventure • W.H.G. Kingston

... the slopes of the hills and the cienegas around Castac Lake were strewn with the bleached bones of his prey. For twenty years that solitary old bear had been monarch of all that Gen. Beale surveyed—to paraphrase President Lincoln's remark to Surveyor-General Beale himself—and wrought such devastation on the ranch that for years there had been a standing reward ...

— Bears I Have Met--and Others • Allen Kelly

... He calls himself Leopold Young Mandeville—is a surveyor by trade, and has been working abroad at some outlandish line or another for the last two years. He is a very fair hand at the compasses, and so I have got him here by way of assistant. You may think him rather dull ...

— Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 366, April, 1846 • Various

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