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incloser

incloser is the archaic spelling of encloser.

Meaning of encloser

Noun

encloser (plural enclosers)

  1. (historical) Someone who appropriates common land.
    • It was said, for example, that […] the families of notorious enclosers always died out in three generations […].1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 94
  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.

Forms of incloser

pluralinclosers

Origin of incloser

From inclose + -er.

Questions about incloser

What is incloser the archaic spelling of?
Incloser is the archaic spelling of encloser.

Words near incloser in the dictionary

  1. incloistering
  2. incloisters
  3. inclosable
  4. inclose
  5. inclosed
  6. incloser
  7. inclosers
  8. incloses
  9. incloseth
  10. inclosing
  11. inclosure

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Adapted from Wiktionary: incloser (page history and authors); encloser (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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