Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Nautical, bulkheads formerly erected fore and aft in a ship for the men to stand behind in close engagement in order to fire on the enemy. Also called
close-quarters .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Naut.), obsolete Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a close engagement with an enemy's boarders; -- called also
close quarters .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun nautical, obsolete
close quarters
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Examples
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Had they pushed the attack home, the issue might have been different, but the sight of the close-fights frightened them.
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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With these for his close-fights, or war-girdles, he waved to the
On the Spanish Main Or, Some English forays on the Isthmus of Darien. John Masefield 1922
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_Fights_, I find, are _cloaths_ hung round the ship to conceal the men from the enemy, and _close-fights_ are _bulkheads_, or any other shelter that the fabrick of a ship affords.
Notes to Shakespeare — Volume 01: Comedies Samuel Johnson 1746
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