Close-fights

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Close-fights \Close"-fights`\, n. pl. (Naut.)
     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}. [Obs.]
     [1913 Webster]