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

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

Strein :: Streighten (v. t.) See Straiten.

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

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

Strait-laced :: Strait-laced (a.) Restricted; stiff; constrained.

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

Straitened :: Strait (v. t.) To put to difficulties.

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Tight; close; closely fitting.

Straight-out :: Straightness (n.) A variant of Straitness.

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..

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

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

Transfrete :: Transfrete (v. i.) To pass over a strait or narrow sea.

Straits :: Strait (adv.) Strictly; rigorously.

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..

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

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..

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

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..

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