ppl. a. [pa. pple. of FIGHT v.] In senses of the vb.; also with out. rare in attrib. use exc. with advs., as well-fought. † Close-fought (nonce-use): used in hand-to-hand fighting.

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1550.  J. Coke, Eng. & Fr. Heralds, § 125 (1877), 95. He had in his dayes ben in .XXVI. fought battayles.

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1615.  Chapman, Odyss., II. 726.

                No touch away with him he bore
Of far-off hurl’d lance, or of close-fought sword,
Whose wounds for favours war doth oft afford.

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1827.  Southey, Hist. Penins. War, II. 562. He neither mentioned nor alluded to the battle of Talavera; the circumstances of that well-fought field had been so completely concealed from the French nation, that they were fully persuaded the English had suffered a great defeat; but the lesson had not been lost upon Buonaparte.

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1865.  Swinburne, Atalanta, 2059.

                When the lord of fought fields
          Breaketh spearshaft from spear,
Thou art broken, our lord, thou art broken, with travail and labour and fear.

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1895.  Daily News, 17 April, 7/2. A keenly fought out match.

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