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enclosure
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.
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, yardFor further exploring for "enclosure" in Webster Dictionary Online