Precinct

·noun A parish or prescribed territory attached to a church, and taxed for its support.

II. Precinct ·noun A district within certain boundaries; a minor territorial or jurisdictional division; as, an election precinct; a school precinct.

III. Precinct ·noun The limit or exterior line encompassing a place; a boundary; a confine; limit of jurisdiction or authority;

— often in the plural; as, the precincts of a state.