Meander

To wind as a river or stream. Webster., The winding or bend of a stream. “Lines which course the lines of navigable streams or other navigable waters.”

Niles V. Cedar Point Club, 175 U. S. 306, 20 Sup. Ct. 124, 44 L. Ed. 171.

Meander lines are run in surveying public lands bordering upon navigable rivers, not as boundaries of the tract, but to ascertain the quantity of the land subject to sale; and the watercourse, and not the meander line, as actually run on the land, is the boundary; Jefferis v. Land Co., 134 U. S. 178, 10 Sup. Ct. 518, 33 L. Ed. 872; Hardin V. Jordan, 140 U. S. 376, 11 Sup. Ct. 808, 838, 35 L. Ed. 428; Mitchell v. Smale, 140 U. S. 406, 11 Sup. Ct. 819, 840, 35 L. Ed. 442; St. Paul & R. R. Co. V. Schurmelr, 7 Wall. (U. S.) 286, 19 L. Ed. 74. Where a stream was meandered In the original survey, and the conveyance made and the price paid for the quantity within the meandered lines, the grant conveyed title to the thread of the stream, and the boundaries of the land were held not to be determined by the meander line; Fuller v. Shedd, 161 HI.

462, 44 N. E. 286, 33 L. R. A. 146, 52 Am. St. Rep. 380. See Lake; Turner v. Parker, 14 Or. 340, 12 Pac. 495.