Stingy, mean. Common in various dialects of England.--Halliwell.
Ibycus is a carking, griping, close-fisted fellow.
Bp. Berkeley's Maxims.
Covetous or stingy. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Fist>>. ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
·adv Secretly; darkly. II. Close ·adv In a close manner. III. Close ·noun A grapple in wrestling. ...
As close as God's curse to a whore's a-se: close as shirt and shitten a-se. ...
·adj <<Niggardly>>. ...
·adj Close-fisted; covetous; niggardly. II. Hard-fisted ·adj Having hard or strong hands; as, a har...
·adj Closefisted; stingy; mean. ...
Awkward in catching a turn, or otherwise handling a rope. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Having hands inured to hauling ropes. ...
·adj Closely united. ...
·adj Firmly barred or closed. ...
·adj Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. ...
·noun ·pl Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a ...
·noun A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the f...
·adj Closemouthed; silent. ...
·noun A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam. II. ...
At 32 Little Britain, on the west, south and east sides of St. Bartholomew the Great (P.O. Directory...
A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
The close of St. Paul's situate near the Dean's mansion, 1361 (Ct. H.W. II. 25). ...
See Old Artillery Ground. ...
See Wellclose Square. ...
1) See Well Yard, Little Britain. 2) See Wellclose Square. ...
Near or alongside; too close to be safe. "The boat is close aboard," a caution to the officer in com...
Where caulking is not used, the butts or joints of the planks are sometimes rabbeted, and fayed clos...
One not advertised. ...
One who drives a hard bargain in petty traffic. ...
That is one gained by labour from the element, formed by encircling a portion of water with walls an...
The general arrangement or trim of a ship's sails when she endeavours to progress in the nearest dir...
The ice floes so jammed together that boring is impossible, and present efforts useless. (See pack-i...
Those which lie up rivers; a term in contradistinction to out-ports. ...
See close-quarters ...
, or close-fights Certain strong bulk-heads or barriers of wood, formerly stretching across a merc...
The last reefs of the top-sails, or other sails set, being taken in. ...
The notch in the base-ring of a cannon, to place the eye in a line with the top-sight. ...
See Bartholomew Close. ...
To haul to it. ♦ Close upon a tack or bowline, or close by a wind, is when the wind is on either b...
To approach near to it. ...