fights —
“Up with your,”
THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, ii. 2.
123.
Phillips thus explains fights:
“(In sea-affairs) the waste-cloaths that hang round about the
ship in a fight, to hinder the men from being seen by the enemy: also any place wherein
men may cover themselves, and yet use their firearms.”
The New World of Words.
ed. 1706.
A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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