The act or time of shutting; close.

A door or cover; a shutter.

The line or place where two pieces of metal are welded together.

(Britain, Shropshire dialect) A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.

(transitive) To close, to stop from being open.

(intransitive) To close, to stop being open.

(transitive or intransitive, chiefly Britain) To close (a business) temporarily.

(transitive) To confine in an enclosed area.

(transitive) To catch or snag in the act of shutting something.

(transitive) To preclude, exclude.

Closed; not open.

(linguistics, phonetics, archaic) Synonym of close