BEAT THE BOUNDS

Meaning of BEAT THE BOUNDS in English

phrasal

: to survey the bounds of an English parish by marching in procession and marking them at various points by switching with boughs

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

BEAT THE BOUNDS — historical mark parish boundaries by walking round them and striking certain points with rods. → beat
Concise Oxford English vocab
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Webster's New International English Dictionary
BOUNDS — plural of bound present third singular of bound
Webster's New International English Dictionary
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Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BEAT — I. ˈbēt verb ( beat ; beat·en ˈbē-t ə n ; or beat ; beat·ing ) Etymology: Middle English beten, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
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Webster English vocab
BEAT — [beat] vb beat ; beat.en or beat ; beat.ing [ME beten, fr. OE beatan; akin to OHG bozan to beat] …
Merriam-Webster English vocab
BEAT — Wave graphs illustrating how beat notes are produced by two different frequencies in physics, the pulsation caused by the combination …
Britannica English vocabulary
BOUNDS — / baʊndz; NAmE / noun [ pl. ] the accepted or furthest limits of sth : beyond / outside / …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BEAT — v., n., & adj. --v. (past beat; past part. beaten) 1 tr. a strike (a person or animal) persistently or …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
BEAT — v., n., & adj. v. (past beat; past part. beaten) 1 tr. a strike (a person or animal) persistently or …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
BEAT — v., n., & adj. --v. (past beat; past part. beaten) 1. tr. a strike (a person or animal) persistently or …
Oxford English vocab
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Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
BOUNDS — [plural] [noun]The school declared that the town was out of bounds to its pupils (= that they were forbidden from …
Cambridge English vocab
BEAT — (MOVEMENT) [verb] [past simple] beat, [past participle] beaten or beat - to (cause to) make a regular movement or soundAlthough …
Cambridge English vocab
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Moby Thesaurus English vocabulary
BOUNDS — • ↑ be out of bounds • ↑ come on in leaps and bounds
Longman Activator English vocab
BOUNDS — n. 25B6; plural noun we keep rents within reasonable bounds : LIMITS, confines, proportions. land within the forest bounds : …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
BEAT — n. 25B6; verb they were beaten with truncheons : HIT, strike, batter, thump, bang, hammer, punch, knock, thrash, pound, pummel, …
Concise Oxford Thesaurus English vocabulary
BOUNDS — n. 1) to set the ~ 2) out of ~ to 3) within ~ 4) ( misc. ) to know …
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
BEAT — v. 1 strike, pound, bash, smite, batter, pummel or pommel, belabour, pelt, clout, thrash, give (someone) a thrashing or beating, …
Oxford Thesaurus English vocab
BOUNDS — Пределы
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
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Большой Англо-Русский словарь
BOUNDS — Отграниченный
Американский Англо-Русский словарь
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Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
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Англо-Русский словарь Tiger
BOUNDS — (n) рамки
English-Russian Lingvistica'98 dictionary
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Новый Англо-Русский словарь современного неформального английского
BOUNDS — Пределы
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
BEAT
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
BOUNDS — ограничивать граница
Англо-Русский словарь
OUT
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
WITHIN BOUNDS — {adv.} or {adj. phr.} 1. Inside of the boundary lines in a game; on or inside of the playing field. …
Slang English vocab
OUT OF BOUNDS — {adv.} or {adj. phr.} 1. Outside of the boundary lines in a game; not on or inside the playing field. …
Slang English vocab
WITHIN BOUNDS — {adv.} or {adj. phr.} 1. Inside of the boundary lines in a game; on or inside of the playing field. …
Словарь английских идиом
OUT OF BOUNDS — {adv.} or {adj. phr.} 1. Outside of the boundary lines in a game; not on or inside the playing field. …
Словарь английских идиом
WITHIN BOUNDS — adv. or adj. phr. 1. Inside of the boundary lines in a game; on or inside of the playing field. …
American Idioms English vocabulary
OUT OF BOUNDS — adv. or adj. phr. 1. Outside of the boundary lines in a game; not on or inside the playing field. …
American Idioms English vocabulary
BOUND — I. ˈbau̇nd adjective Etymology: alteration of boun, from Middle English, from Old Norse būinn, past participle of būa to live, …
Webster's New International English Dictionary
BOUND — bound 1 — boundness , n. /bownd/ , v. 1. pt. and pp. of bind . adj. 2. tied; in …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
BOUND — I. bound 1 /baʊnd/ BrE AmE the past tense and past participle of ↑ bind II. bound 2 S2 W3 …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
BOUND — I. BE BOUND /baʊnd/ Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. Bound is …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
YOUR
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
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WELL — I. adverb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a better/greater/deeper understanding ▪ All of this will lead to a better understanding of …
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WAY — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a haphazard way/manner/fashion ▪ I continued my studies in a rather haphazard way. a …
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
UP
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TAKE
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SET — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a bunch/set of keys (= a group of keys kept together ) ▪ He …
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