a. Having a close body.
1. Applied to a coat, etc., the body part of which fits closely.
1677. Lond. Gaz., No. 1221/4. A close-bodied Coat.
1768–74. Tucker, Lt. Nat. (1852), I. 540. Enwrap me in thy close-bodied leathern jacket.
1801. W. Huntington, Bank of Faith, 155. I had got two very good great-coats, but stood in need of a close-bodied one.
2. Of close grain or structure, close-grained.
1726. Leoni, Alberti’s Archit., I. 27 b. The most close-bodied Box, most excellent for Turning. Ibid., I. 29 b. The closer bodied it is.
