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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..

Bosporus :: Bosporus (n.) A strait or narrow sea between two seas, or a lake and a seas; as, the Bosporus (formerly the Thracian Bosporus) or Strait of Constantinople, between the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora; the Cimmerian Bosporus, between the Black Sea and Sea of Azof..

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

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

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..

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

Strait :: Strait (a.) A narrow pass or passage.

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Strait-waistcoat :: Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances..

Strait :: Strait (a.) A variant of Straight.

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

Narrow :: Narrow (superl.) Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances..

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