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Close-fights
·noun ·pl Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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fights
Waste-cloths formerly hung about a ship, to conceal the men from the enemy. Shakspeare, who knew eve...
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Close
·adv Secretly; darkly.
II. Close ·adv In a close manner.
III. Close ·noun A grapple in wrestling.
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close
As close as God's curse to a whore's a-se: close as shirt and shitten a-se.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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Close-banded
·adj Closely united.
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Close-barred
·adj Firmly barred or closed.
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Close-bodied
·adj Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment.
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Close-stool
·noun A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the f...
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Close-tongued
·adj Closemouthed; silent.
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Couple-close
·noun A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam.
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Bartholomew Close
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.
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(St.) Paul's Close
The close of St. Paul's situate near the Dean's mansion, 1361 (Ct. H.W. II. 25).
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Tasell Close
See Old Artillery Ground.
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Weld Close
See Wellclose Square.
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Well Close
1) See Well Yard, Little Britain.
2) See Wellclose Square.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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close-fisted
Covetous or stingy.
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Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
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close-fisted
Stingy, mean. Common in various dialects of England.--Halliwell.
Ibycus is a carking, griping, clos...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
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close-aboard
Near or alongside; too close to be safe. "The boat is close aboard," a caution to the officer in com...
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close-butt
Where caulking is not used, the butts or joints of the planks are sometimes rabbeted, and fayed clos...
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close contract
One not advertised.
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close-fist
One who drives a hard bargain in petty traffic.
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close harbour
That is one gained by labour from the element, formed by encircling a portion of water with walls an...
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close-hauled
The general arrangement or trim of a ship's sails when she endeavours to progress in the nearest dir...
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close pack
The ice floes so jammed together that boring is impossible, and present efforts useless. (See pack-i...
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close-ports
Those which lie up rivers; a term in contradistinction to out-ports.
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close-quarters
, or close-fights
Certain strong bulk-heads or barriers of wood, formerly stretching across a merc...
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close-reefed
The last reefs of the top-sails, or other sails set, being taken in.
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close-sight
The notch in the base-ring of a cannon, to place the eye in a line with the top-sight.
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Great St. Bartholomew Close
See Bartholomew Close.
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A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.
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close the wind, to
To haul to it.
♦ Close upon a tack or bowline, or close by a wind, is when the wind is on either b...
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close with the land, to
To approach near to it.
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