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Straitening :: Straitened (imp. & p. p.) of Straite.

Ferry :: Ferry (v. t.) To carry or transport over a river, strait, or other narrow water, in a boat..

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

Debouchure :: Debouchure (n.) The outward opening of a river, of a valley, or of a strait..

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

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

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..

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

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) A (comparatively) narrow passageway connecting two large bodies of water; -- often in the plural; as, the strait, or straits, of Gibraltar; the straits of Magellan; the strait, or straits, of Mackinaw..

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 (a.) A narrow pass or passage.

Fata Morgana :: Fata Morgana () A kind of mirage by which distant objects appear inverted, distorted, displaced, or multiplied. It is noticed particularly at the Straits of Messina, between Calabria and Sicily..

Willywaw :: Willywaw (n.) A whirlwind, or whirlwind squall, encountered in the Straits of Magellan..

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make tense, or tight; to tighten..

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

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..

Strelitz :: Streite (adv.) Narrowly; strictly; straitly.

Straiten :: Straitening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Straite.

Scant :: Scant (v. t.) To limit; to straiten; to treat illiberally; to stint; as, to scant one in provisions; to scant ourselves in the use of necessaries..

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