Brewer's: Closh

(Mynherr). A Dutch Jack-tar. Closh is corrupt form of Claus, a contraction of Nicholas, a name as common with the Dutch as Jack is with the English people.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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