close/seal the deal

: to move so as to bar passage through something

: to block against entry or passage

: to deny access to

: a coming or bringing to a conclusion

: a conclusion or end in time or existence : cessation

: the concluding passage (as of a speech or play)

: an enclosed area

: the precinct (see precinct 2a) of a cathedral

: a narrow passage leading from a street to a court and the houses within or to the common stairway of tenements

: having no openings : closed

: confined or carefully guarded

: high

: in a close position or manner

: any of numerous carnivorous marine mammals (families Phocidae and Otariidae) that live chiefly in cold regions and have limbs modified into webbed flippers adapted primarily to swimming

: the pelt of a fur seal

: leather made from the skin of a seal

: to hunt seals

: something that confirms, ratifies, or makes secure : guarantee, assurance

: a device with a cut or raised emblem, symbol, or word used especially to certify a signature or authenticate a document

: a medallion or ring face bearing such a device incised so that it can be impressed on wax or moist clay

: to confirm or make secure by or as if by a seal

: to solemnize (something, such as a marriage) for eternity by a Mormon rite

: to set or affix an authenticating seal to

: part, portion

: a usually large or indefinite quantity or degree

: the act or right of distributing cards to players

: to give as one's portion : apportion

: to distribute (playing cards) to players

: administer, deliver

: an act of dealing (see ²deal 3) : transaction

: bargain

: contract

: a board of fir or pine

: pine or fir wood