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Close-Fights
Webster's Dictionary
(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.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Close-Fights'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/c/close-fights.html. 1828.