Definition of "adjoining"

The location was described to be "on the lower side of the river, adjoining land owned by Whitmore Knaggs and on the upper side by lands not yet granted."

1902, Robert B. Ross, editor, History of the Knaggs family of Ohio and Michigan‎, retrieved 2013-07-22, page 46

He had contemplated Pym in all the stages he had grown up with him, drunk with him and worked with him, including a night in Berlin he had totally forgotten until now when they had ended up screwing a couple of army nurses in adjoining rooms.

1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy