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Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Bound with stays.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

Narrow :: Narrow (n.) A narrow passage; esp., a contracted part of a stream, lake, or sea; a strait connecting two bodies of water; -- usually in the plural; as, The Narrows of New York harbor..

Strait :: Strait (a.) A variant of Straight.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

Straitness :: Straitly (adv.) Closely; intimately.

Press :: Press (v.) To straiten; to distress; as, to be pressed with want or hunger..

Camisole :: Camisole (n.) A kind of straitjacket.

Straightener :: Straighten (v. t.) A variant of Straiten.

Strait :: Strait (a.) Fig.: A condition of narrowness or restriction; doubt; distress; difficulty; poverty; perplexity; -- sometimes in the plural; as, reduced to great straits..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Narrow; not broad.

Angust :: Angust (a.) Narrow; strait.

Strait-jacket :: Strait-handed (a.) Parsimonious; sparing; niggardly.

Angustation :: Angustation (n.) The act of making narrow; a straitening or contacting.

Impaction :: Impaction (n.) An immovable packing; (Med.), a lodgment of something in a strait or passage of the body; as, impaction of the fetal head in the strait of the pelvis; impaction of food or feces in the intestines of man or beast..

Straight :: Straight (a.) A variant of Strait, a..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

Down :: Down (prep.) A road for shipping in the English Channel or Straits of Dover, near Deal, employed as a naval rendezvous in time of war..

Strait :: Strait (a.) A neck of land; an isthmus.

Sound :: Sound (n.) A narrow passage of water, or a strait between the mainland and an island; also, a strait connecting two seas, or connecting a sea or lake with the ocean; as, the Sound between the Baltic and the german Ocean; Long Island Sound..

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