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

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

Strait-laced :: Strait-jacket (n.) A dress of strong materials for restraining maniacs or those who are violently delirious. It has long sleeves, which are closed at the ends, confining the hands, and may be tied behind the back..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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..

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

Strait-handed :: Straiten (v. t.) To restrict; to distress or embarrass in respect of means or conditions of life; -- used chiefly in the past participle; -- as, a man straitened in his circumstances..

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

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

Tighten :: Tighten (v. t.) To draw tighter; to straiten; to make more close in any manner.

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..

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