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close together |
close up |
close-banded |
close-barred |
close-bodied |
close-fights
| close-fisted
| close-fitting
| close-grained
| close-hauled
| close-knit
close-fights
CIDE DICTIONARY
close-fights, n. pl.
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 . [1913 Webster]
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