Meander

To wind, as a river or stream. Webster. The winding or bend of a stream. To survey a stream according to its meanders or windings. Rev. St. Wis. c. 34, § 1; 2 Wis. 317.

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.

To meander means to follow a winding or flexuous course; and when it is said, in a description of land, "thence with the meander of the river," it must mean a meandered line,—a line which follows the sinuosities of the river,—or, in other words, that the river is the boundary between the points indicated. Turner v. Parker, 14 Or. 341, 12 Pac. 495; Schurmeier v. St. Pani & P. R. Co.., 10 Minn. 100 (Gil. 75), 88 Am. Dec. 59. This term is used in some jurisdictions with the meaning of surveying and mapping a stream according to its meanderings, or windings and turnings. See Jones v. Petti-bone, 2 Wis. 317.

— Meander lines. Lines run in surveying particular portions of the public lands which border on navigable rivers, not as boundaries of the tract, but for the purpose of defining the sinuosities of the banks of the stream, and as the means of ascertaining the quantity of land in the fraction subject to sale, and which is to be paid for by the purchaser. In preparing the official plat from the field notes, the meander line is represented as the border line of the stream, and shows that the water-course, and not the meander line as naturally run on the ground, is the boundary. St. Paul & P. R. Co., v. Schurmeier, 7 Wall. 286, 19 L. Ed. 74; Niles v. Cedar Point Club, 175 U. S. 300, 20 Sup. Ct. 124, 44 In Ed. 171.

To pursue a winding course, as a river or stream; to follow the course of a stream, according to its windings; to survey a stream according to its actual course.

‘To meander means to follow a winding or flexuous course; and when it is said, in « description of land, “thence with the meander of theriver,” it must mean a meandered line,—a line which follows the sinuosities of the river,—or, in other words, that the river is the boundary between the points indicated. 14 Or. 341, 12 Pac. Rep. 495; 10 Minn. 100, (Gil. 75.) This term is used in some jurisdictions with the meaning of surveying and mapping a stream according toits meanderings, or windings and turnings. See 2 Wis, 317.