Encloser
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ɪnˈkləʊzə/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Encloser is a noun meaning (now chiefly historical) Someone who appropriates common land.
Meaning
(now chiefly historical) Someone who appropriates common land.
More Meanings
- More generally, someone or something that encloses something.
- (programming) An object, procedure, or other portion of code that defines the scope of a variable.
Example Sentences
It was said, for example, that […] the families of notorious enclosers always died out in three generations […].
Ironically, it was the encloser who had acted in an unbounded manner by violating the institutional boundaries of local community power.
In one episode during the long-running dispute over enclosure at Grewelthorpe Moor in Yorkshire, the women of the community followed the encloser on to the moor and, ‘fallinge downe upon their knees, and some of them weepinge for the loss of their Comon, desired…[him] to be good unto them’.
Word Forms
- enclosers
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include squatter, purlieuman, comeling, landleaper, landloper, interloper.
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