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

Strait :: Strait (superl.) Strict; scrupulous; rigorous.

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

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

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 (superl.) Difficult; distressful; straited.

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

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

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

Strake :: Strait-waistcoat (n.) Same as Strait-jacket.

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

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

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

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