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

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..

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

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

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

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

Scrimp :: Scrimp (v. t.) To make too small or short; to limit or straiten; to put on short allowance; to scant; to contract; to shorten; as, to scrimp the pattern of a coat..

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

Straiten :: Straiten (v. t.) To make strait; to make narrow; hence, to contract; to confine..

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

Straitly :: Strait-laced (a.) Rigid in opinion; strict in manners or morals.

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

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

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..

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

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

Channel :: Channel (n.) The deeper part of a river, harbor, strait, etc., where the main current flows, or which affords the best and safest passage for vessels..

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

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..

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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