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  • See uninclosed.

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  • adjective Not enclosed

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  • adjective not closed in our surrounded or included

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Examples

  • Melk has six hundred mares, all running out in unenclosed fields.

    The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

  • Further, if the motor is "unenclosed" (has ventilation slots) & is 10 years old, it is highly advisable NOT to connect a VFD to this motor unless it has been fully tested.

    unknown title 2009

  • That critique began to unravel when journalists retrieved a story from last year about 1,600 unenclosed toilets in Moqhaka in the Free State – an area controlled by the ANC.

    Why is South Africa still providing 'apartheid toilets'? | David Smith 2011

  • • Kirsten Shepherd-Barr, University Lecturer in Modern Drama and Tutorial Fellow at the University of Oxford, selects: A Saturday afternoon in November was approaching the time of twilight, and the vast tract of unenclosed wild known as Egdon Heath embrowned itself moment by moment.

    Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday Bill Lucey 2012

  • Cape Town was condemned in a recent court judgment for building 50 unenclosed loos in the Makhaza section of Khayelitsha.

    Why is South Africa still providing 'apartheid toilets'? | David Smith 2011

  • Created in the 11th century by William the Conqueror for deer hunting, the New Forest is the largest area of original woodland, heath land and unenclosed pasture remaining in England, covering nearly 600 square kilometers.

    Foraging in the New Forest Bruce Palling 2010

  • This he did not consider as difficult; for, though the door was guarded on the outside, the window, which was not above ten feet from the ground, was open for escape, the common on which it looked was unenclosed, and profusely covered with furze.

    Redgauntlet 2008

  • It needs - in spite of immense difficulties which I shall list below - to be constantly reaffirmed that the only family worthy of being unenclosed in scare quotes is the traditional, monogamous, heterosexual two-parent family.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

  • “Fear nothing, I will be on my guard,” said Roland Avenel; and without waiting farther answer, rode towards the scene of conflict, keeping, as he rode, the higher and unenclosed ground, and ever looking cautiously around him, for fear of involving himself in some hostile party.

    The Abbot 2008

  • The statistics give an average of two hundred and sixty homeless children picked up annually at that period, by the police patrols, in unenclosed lands, in houses in process of construction, and under the arches of the bridges.

    Les Miserables 2008

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