enclosure
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
enclosure /ɪnˈkləʊʒə, ɛn-/
▶noun
- 1 an area that is sealed off by a barrier.
■ Brit. a section of a racecourse or stadium allocated to a particular group: the members' enclosure.
- 2 a document or object placed in an envelope together with a letter.
- 3 the process or policy of enclosing common land so as to make it private property, as carried out in much of Britain in the 18th and early 19th centuries.
'enclosure' also found in these Oxford entries:
ampulla
- area
- areaway
- aviary
- bail
- barracoon
- boma
- bubble
- caponier
- carrel
- casemate
- close
- cofferdam
- compound
- console
- corral
- creep
- curtilage
- dock
- dodgem
- enc.
- enceinte
- encl.
- extern
- fathom
- fold
- fume cupboard
- hangar
- inclosure
- kampong
- kissing gate
- kraal
- loge
- outer
- oxygen tent
- paddock
- palisade
- pen
- piggery
- pightle
- pigsty
- pit
- playpen
- pleasance
- shrine
- stockade
- telephone box
- temenos
- trap
