Enclosure

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: en=clo=sure

CIDE DICTIONARY

Enclosure, n. 

 Inclosure. See Inclosure.  [1913 Webster]
" The words enclose and enclosure are written indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or inclosure."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Enclosure, n. (also inclosure)
1 the act of enclosing, esp. of common land.
2 Brit. an enclosed space or area, esp. for a special class of persons at a sporting event.
3 a thing enclosed with a letter.
4 an enclosing fence etc.

Etymology

AF & OF (as ENCLOSE)

THESAURUS

Enclosure

abatis, advanced work, arena, bailey, balistraria, bank, banquette, barbed-wire entanglement, barbican, barnyard, barricade, barrier, bartizan, barton, bastion, battlement, boundary, box, breastwork, bulwark, cage, casemate, cheval-de-frise, cincture, circling, circumambience, circumambiency, circumcincture, circumflexion, circumjacence, circumposition, circumvallation, close, compound, confine, container, containment, contravallation, coop, corral, cote, counterscarp, court, courtyard, crib, croft, curtain, curtilage, delimited field, demibastion, dike, dog pound, drawbridge, earthwork, embracement, encincture, encirclement, enclave, encompassment, enfoldment, entanglement, envelopment, environment, escarp, escarpment, farmyard, fence, field, fieldwork, fold, fortalice, fortification, girding, girdling, glacis, ground, hedge, hell, hutch, inclusion, involvement, kraal, limbo, list, loophole, lunette, machicolation, manger, mantelet, merlon, mound, outwork, paddock, pale, paling, palisade, parados, parapet, park, pasture, pen, penfold, pigpen, pigsty, pinfold, place of confinement, polygon, portcullis, postern gate, pound, purgatory, quad, quadrangle, rail, railing, rampart, ravelin, redan, redoubt, rink, run, runway, sally port, scarp, sconce, square, stall, stockade, stockyard, sty, surrounding, tenaille, theater, toft, vallation, vallum, wall, work, yard