[syn: enclosure, inclosure]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Inclosure \In*clo"sure\ (?; 135), n. [See Inclose,
Enclosure.] [Written also enclosure.]
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1. The act of inclosing; the state of being inclosed, shut
up, or encompassed; the separation of land from common
ground by a fence.
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2. That which is inclosed or placed within something; a thing
contained; a space inclosed or fenced up.
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Within the inclosure there was a great store of
houses. --Hakluyt.
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3. That which incloses; a barrier or fence.
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Breaking our inclosures every morn. --W. Browne.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Enclosure \En*clo"sure\ (?; 135), n.
Inclosure. See Inclosure.
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Note: The words enclose and enclosure are written
indiscriminately enclose or inclose and enclosure or
inclosure.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
enclosure
n 1: a structure consisting of an area that has been enclosed
for some purpose
2: the act of enclosing something inside something else [syn:
enclosure, enclosing, envelopment, inclosure]
3: a naturally enclosed space [syn: enclosure, natural
enclosure]
4: something (usually a supporting document) that is enclosed in
an envelope with a covering letter [syn: enclosure,
inclosure]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
139 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856):
ENCLOSURE. An artificial fence put around one's estate. Vide Close.