† close-fightn.
Nautical. Obsolete.
See quot. 1627, and cf. close quarters n. Also figurative.
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1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. C How her eyes dart wonder on my heart!.. Stand firme on decke, when beauties close fight's vp.
1622 R. Hawkins Observ. Voiage South Sea xxx. 66 Had we beene able to haue spared but a dozen men, doubtlesse, we had done with her what we would; for shee had no close fights.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. xii. 58 A ships close fights, are smal ledges of wood laid crosse one another like the grates of iron in a prisons window, betwixt the maine mast, and the fore mast, & are called gratings.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Close-quarters or Close-fights.
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n.1602- light-fingered
- light-fingeredness
- light-fleshed
- light-foot
- light-footed
- light-framed
- light-gathering
- light-gilded
- light-giver
- light-giving
- light-grasping
- light-haired
- light-handed
- light-handedness
- light-harnessed
- light-harvesting
- light-hating
- light-headed
- light-headedly
- light-headedness
- light-heart
- light-hearted
- light-heartedly
- light-heartedness
- light-heavy