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- noun Plural form of
inclosure .
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Examples
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Within the inclosures was a store-house, barrack-rooms, garrison-well, and a number of cabins for the use of families.
Heroes and Hunters of the West Comprising Sketches and Adventures of Boone, Kenton, Brady, Logan, Whetzel, Fleehart, Hughes, Johnson, &c. John Frost 1829
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The silent robbery of the people's rights called "inclosures" has done much, before and since Carey's time, to sweep away or shut up the woodlands.
Life of William Carey George Smith 1876
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"inclosures," by which was primarily meant the fencing in for private use of the commons, but secondarily came to be applied to the conversion of arable land into pasture [3] and the substitution of large holdings for small.
The Age of the Reformation Preserved Smith 1910
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Beyond the stone inclosures, all was a dreary sameness.
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§ 1065 (1994) (removal of unlawful inclosures from public lands);
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The ground here is not so encumbered; it is laid out in agreeable inclosures, with intervals of open fields, and the mountains rise with an easy ascent at a much greater distance from the sea, than on the other side of the bay.
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Between Luc and Toulon, the country is delightfully parcelled out into inclosures.
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France, fifteen years ago, a good number of inclosures and plantations have been made in the English fashion.
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All round the room and the galleries were matted inclosures, fitted with numerous neat beds and cushions for reposing on, where lay a dozen of true believers smoking, or sleeping, or in the happy half-dozing state.
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There are very few inclosures, scarce any meadow ground, and, so far as I could observe, a great scarcity of cattle.
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