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Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1854 · p. 6

In Music. See Cadence. Close. A small field, enclosed or hedged about. CIOSE HAULED; that is, the tacks close down, the sheets aft, the yards braced sharp up, and the bowlines hauled, Hie ship making her progre as near the direction of the wind as she can. [s. 256]