Perambulated

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Perambulate \Per*am"bu*late\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Perambulated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Perambulating}.] [L.
     perambulatus, p. p. of perambulare to perambulate; per
     through + ambulare to walk. See {Per-}, and {Amble}.]
     To walk through or over; especially, to travel over for the
     purpose of surveying or examining; to inspect by traversing;


     specifically, to inspect officially the boundaries of, as of
     a town or parish, by walking over the whole line.
     [1913 Webster]