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Strait :: Strait (superl.) Close; intimate; near; familiar.

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..

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..

Pinch :: Pinch (v. t.) Figuratively: To cramp; to straiten; to oppress; to starve; to distress; as, to be pinched for money..

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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

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

Euripus :: Euripus (n.) A strait; a narrow tract of water, where the tide, or a current, flows and reflows with violence, as the ancient fright of this name between Eubaea and Baeotia. Hence, a flux and reflux..

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

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..

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