A toilet, containing no water, in which earth or ashes were added to the excrement after each use, the contents being regularly collected.

(US, idiomatic, humorous, derogatory) Adequate: acceptable as government work, imperfect but not worth the time or effort of improving.

To seal or block the entrance to a road, an area, or a building so that people cannot enter.

To move people closer together. / To shut a building or a business for a period of time. / To heal a cut or other wound / To become less 'open' or communicative, to shrink back.

(transitive, intransitive) To stop trading as a business. / (transitive) To surround someone, as to impede their movement.

In a confined space.

plural of close quarter

Very near proximity.

(idiomatic) In private; in one's private life; lacking (normal) public disclosure, in camera. / (idiomatic, sports) Without public spectators.

(nautical, navigation) An estimated point in which the distance between two objects, of which at least one is in motion, will reach its minimum value; abbreviated CPA. The estimate is used to evaluate the risk of a collision of e.g. two ships.