to survey land or a coast

Half a pound of tuppenny rice, Half a pound of treacle. That’s the way the money goes, Pop! goes the weasel.

He started to think of himself as being like a prescriptionist. I had to explain to people who didn't know enough about whether they should take aspirin or Anacin, and people would do anything the guy in the white coat -- the stockbroker-- told them to do.

His real name was James, but those who knew him seemed never to call him that. He was Jamesy, or more often Jazz.