Incloser vs Encloser - What's the difference?
incloser | encloser |
(now, chiefly, historical) Someone who appropriates common land.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, page 94:
* 1991 , Victor Magagna, Communities of Grain :
* 2001 , Braddick & Walters (Eds.), Negotiating Power in Early Modern Society , page 133:
More generally, someone or something that encloses something.
(computer programming)
Encloser is a alternative form of incloser.
As nouns the difference between incloser and encloser
is that incloser is archaic form of encloser while encloser is someone who appropriates common land.encloser
English
Alternative forms
* incloser (archaic)Noun
(en noun)- It was said, for example, that .
- 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’.
