enclosure Alternative forms
* inclosure
Noun
(countable) Something enclosed, i.e. inserted into a letter or similar package.
- There was an enclosure with the letter — a photo.
(uncountable) The act of enclosing, i.e. the insertion or inclusion of an item in a letter or package.
- ''The enclosure of a photo with your letter is appreciated.
(countable) An area, domain, or amount of something partially or entirely enclosed by barriers.
- He faced punishment for creating the fenced enclosure in a public park.
- The glass enclosure holds the mercury vapor.
- The winning horse was first into the unsaddling enclosure .
(uncountable) The act of separating and surrounding an area, domain, or amount of something with a barrier.
- The enclosure of public land is against the law.
- The experiment requires the enclosure of mercury vapor in a glass tube.
- At first, untrained horses resist enclosure .
(uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
- Strip-farming disappeared after enclosure .
The area of a convent, monastery, etc where access is restricted to community members.
Usage notes
* For more on the spelling of this word, see (m).
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cowyard English
Noun
( en noun)
An enclosure for cows close by the farm.
*{{quote-book, year=1864, author=John Hanning Speke, title=The Discovery of the Source of the Nile, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=On entering the palace we were shown into a cowyard without a tree in it, or any shade; and no one was allowed to sell us food until a present of friendship was paid, after which the hongo would be discussed. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1898, author=Eden Phillpotts, title=Children of the Mist, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=Behind a cowyard of shattered stone pavement and cracked mud stood the farm itself, and around it extended the fields belonging thereto. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Walter W. Skeat, title=English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=There were no pigeons in the pigeon-house, and nothing but jack-daws; and so, after she had burned the beam, and the door-frame and the floor, she ran into the cowyard , through the small field, and fainted behind several pitchers of yeast. }} |
