Definition of "inclosures" [inclosures]

• Plural form of inclosure. (noun)

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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."
• "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."
• ""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."