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encloser

noun
/ɪnˈkləʊzə/UK

Etymology

From enclose + -er.

  1. derived from *(s)kleh₂w-✻
  2. derived from inclūdō
  3. derived from *inclaudo✻
  4. derived from enclose
  5. derived from enclos
  6. inherited from enclosen
  7. suffixed as encloser — “enclose + er”

Definitions

  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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for encloser. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA