Both Uses
periphery
in
A Thousand Acres
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- These wells, thrusting downward some three hundred feet, still dot the township, and there were seven around the peripheries of our farm.†
p. 45.9 *
- Some of the junk half buried in weeds around the periphery had been there so long that paths circumnavigated it, and I started up one of these, toward a stand of hackberries and hawthorns.†
p. 247.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(periphery) the outside boundary or surface of something;
or more rarely: outside the area of main activity - (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)