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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..

Channel :: Channel (n.) A strait, or narrow sea, between two portions of lands; as, the British Channel..

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

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..

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

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

Overstraitly :: Overstraitly (adv.) Too straitly or strictly.

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

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

Strait :: Straits (pl. ) of Strai.

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..

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

Narrow :: Narrow (v. i.) To become less broad; to contract; to become narrower; as, the sea narrows into a strait..

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

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