ENCLOSURE


Meaning of ENCLOSURE in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

new

The new enclosures varied in size according to the size of the farms.

They caught wildfowl for the ever-increasing colony, and built new pens and enclosures for them.

As a result there was much new enclosure .

These new enclosures also produced their new isolated farmsteads, set in the fields.

The thousands of dollars fee earned by the penguins will now be used to build a big new pool and enclosure .

That's the real benefit of the new chimpanzee enclosure .

parliamentary

The landscape of parliamentary enclosure at Oare on Exmoor Somerset.

The landscape of parliamentary enclosure in Wensleydale, North Yorkshire.

But probably four out of five of these farmsteads in the fields are the consequence of parliamentary enclosure .

The landscape of parliamentary enclosure at Brauston, Leicestershire.

Farmsteads are still rare outside the villages: the few that exist were mostly built after the parliamentary enclosure of the parishes.

On the far side of the meadows of the River Welland are the regular fields of parliamentary enclosure .

The landscape of parliamentary enclosure on King s Sedgemoor Somerset Levels.

small

MiLAN's three models feature two, four, or eight ports in small , attractive enclosures .

There was a yard behind the house, a small dirt enclosure with a couple of forsythia shrubs.

I kept it on the premises after that, in a small rabbit enclosure .

walled

The cemetery lay within a high walled enclosure at the back of the Old Delhi Idgah.

Even today, seven hundred years after it was built, the vast walled enclosure is still an impressive sight.

■ NOUN

movement

Roads A great number of new by-roads came into existence as a result of the enclosure movement .

Leapor's poems on rural landscape are among the earliest to register the conflicts associated with the enclosure movement .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Holden's lawsuit led to the enclosure of freeway overpasses with fencing.

The animals were placed in a large enclosure behind the barn.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A rigid cabinet is essential for eliminating unwanted resonances, and the unusual glass-reinforced-plastic enclosure is perfect.

Again the design of the sea-lion enclosure has been of great help in the management of these attractive marine mammals.

It follows the enclosure line and lets the reader know of anyone else who received the letter.

She saw Tig standing on the enclosure wall, his arms stretched out to the sides, his head thrown back.

The enclosure was never exactly crowded, even in the height of the summer.

The most southerly of the three enclosures had also been subdivided, although little of its eastern half lay within the trench.

The proceedings taken under these Acts provide many of the known facts concerning enclosures and depopulation.

There were probably also sacrificial tables and statues of deities, like the clay goddess found at the sacred enclosure of Sachturia.

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