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Fleece :: Fleece (v. t.) To strip of money or other property unjustly, especially by trickery or fraud; to bring to straits by oppressions and exactions..

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

Fretum :: Fretum (n.) A strait, or arm of the sea..

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

Transfretation :: Transfretation (n.) The act of passing over a strait or narrow sea.

Easy :: Easy (v. t.) Not straitened as to money matters; as, the market is easy; -- opposed to tight..

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..

Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait..

Distrait :: Distrait (a.) Absent-minded; lost in thought; abstracted.

Strake :: Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.

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

Belt :: Belt (n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea..

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

Disjoint :: Disjoint (v. t.) Difficult situation; dilemma; strait.

Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..

Channel :: Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Parsimonious; niggargly; mean.

Hellespont :: Hellespont (n.) A narrow strait between Europe and Asia, now called the Daradanelles. It connects the Aegean Sea and the sea of Marmora..

Straitly :: Straitly (adv.) In a strait manner; narrowly; strictly; rigorously.

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

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