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encloser
/ɪnˈkləʊzə/
noun 3
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2VERB + ENCLOSER
followed
PREP.
on
Definitions
noun
1
Someone who appropriates common land.
It was said, for example, that […] the families of notorious enclosers always died out in three generations […].
Ironically, it was the encloser who had acted in an unbounded manner by violating the institutional boundaries of local community power.
2
More generally, someone or something that encloses something.
3
An object, procedure, or other portion of code that defines the scope of a variable.
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It was said, for example, that […] the families of notorious enclosers always died out in three generations […].
Wiktionary02
Ironically, it was the encloser who had acted in an unbounded manner by violating the institutional boundaries of local community power.
Wiktionary03
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,
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