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Shut up barracks where there is hand-to-hand fighting
Answer for the clue "Shut up barracks where there is hand-to-hand fighting ", 14 letters:
close quarters
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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n. 1 (close quarter English) 2 Very near proximity.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1753, originally nautical, also close-fights , "bulkheads fore and aft for men to stand behind in close engagements to fire on the enemy," it reflects the confusion of close (v.) and close (adj.); "now understood of proximity, but orig. 'closed' space on ...
Usage examples of close quarters.
They plied Smerdis' men with arrows and pressed the fight at close quarters with sabers and spears.
It had a big hex-head on it and I scraped my knuckles trying to get a wrench around it and turn it in the close quarters.
You could have shot me at a greater distance, but at close quarters an old human doesn't stand a chance against a Heran.
He had a paralysis beamer, but it was long-barreled and useless at close quarters.
Even a few thousand beings from assorted dimensions in these close quarters produced a blend of body odors that had my stomach doing slow rolls.
Even a few thousand beings from assorted dimensions in these close quarters produced a blend of body odors that had my stomach doing slow rolls .