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To fence in (waste or common land) with the intention of taking it into cultivation, or of appropriating it to individual owners. Also figurative.
transitive. To take (land) into possession; to enclose (common land or wasteland) for cultivation, grazing, etc.; to annex.
To turn into pasture-land, enclose for pasture.
transitive. To fence in or enclose (land).