I suppose, if you really want to get pedantic, the surveyor ties the roadbed to features found about, such as the legal Right-Of-Way and such, and these ties are called......well, ties, but I would think this intent would not make it over the esoterica dam, (or under the esoterica bar) for the NYT puzzle.PERU sent me to Wikipedia to investigate it being a member of the Axis in WWII. I learned that